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Maerua socotrana

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Name

Identification
Maerua socotrana (Schweinf.) Gilg. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Maerua angolensis
  • Maerua thomsonii
  • Maerua thompsoni
  • Maerua socotrana

Flora

Entry for MAERUA socotrana (Schweinf. ex Balf. f.) Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MAERUA socotrana (Schweinf. ex Balf. f.) Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE], (1903);
MAERUA angolensis (Schweinf. ex Balf. f.) Kers subsp. socotrana [family CAPPARACEAE], in Novon 3: 54 (1993). [type as above]
Information
Slender shrub or tree, up to 6(–12) m tall, with glabrous stems and leaves. Leaves simple; blade elliptic to ovate or obovate, usually less than 30 mm long, usually obtuse, midrib raised beneath; petiole 4–25 mm long. Flowers in short corymbose racemes; pedicels 6–19 mm long. Receptacle cylindrical 2–6(–9) mm long. Sepals 4, 5–22 mm long. Petals absent. Stamens many; androgynophore as long as receptacle or exceeding it by up to 5 mm in fruit. Ovary narrowly cylindrical, 4 mm long; gynophore 20–25 mm long in fruit. Fruits up to 7 x 0.6 cm, torulose, several-seeded.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1
Altitude range
100–540 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5517; Hemming 1618; Gillett 23041.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
E Ethiopia
?Arabia
Notes
Lamaloshe (Som.). Kers (loc. cit.) proposed subspecific rank for M. socotrana within M. angolensis. Within this subspecies the populations in Somalia and Ethiopia are given varietal rank as var. africana Kers, whereas var. socotrana is confined to Socotra. In herbaria M. socotrana has often been called M. thomsonii T. Anders., but this is not correct (see under M. crassifolia).

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