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Maerua sphaerogyna

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Identification
Maerua sphaerogyna Gilg & Benedict [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Maerua paniculata
  • Maerua unrecorded
  • Capparis unrecorded
  • Maerua cylindricarpa
  • Maerua aethiopica
  • Maerua cerisicarpa
  • Maerua sphaerogyna

Flora

Entry for MAERUA aethiopica (Fenzl) Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1964) Author: J. ELFFERS, R. A. GRAHAM AND G. P. DEWOLF
Names
MAERUA aethiopica (Fenzl) Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE], in F.T.A. 1: 85 (1868); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 253 (1915); Gilg in V.E. 3(1): 252 (1915); F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. A.-E. Sudan 1: 51 (1950). Type: Sudan Republic, Sennar, Kotschy 549 (W, holo., K, iso. !)
Niebuhria aethiopica Fenzl [family CAPPARACEAE], in Sitzb. Acad. Wien. Math.-Nat. 51 (2): 141 (1865)
Maerua cerasicarpa Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 33: 227 (1903); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 244 (1915); Gilg in V.E. 3(1): 250 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 117 (1949); Wild in F.Z. 1: 217, t. 35/B (1960); F.F.N.R.: 65 (1962). Type: Tanganyika, Bukoba District, Kafuro, Stuhlmann 1856 (B, holo. !, K, photo. !)
Maerua sphaerogyna Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 244 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 117 (1949); Hauman & Wilczek in F.C.B. 2: 492 (1951). Type: Congo Republic, Lake Kivu, Kassner 3186 (BM, K, iso. !)
Information
Shrub up to about 4.5 m. tall, glabrous but for the margin of the sepals. Leaves petiolate, usually 3-foliolate; blade lanceolate to broadly elliptic, 3–6 cm. long, 0.8–1.8(–3) cm. wide, apically somewhat acute, the midrib markedly excurrent as a mucro, light green. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal corymbose raceme; pedicels up to 1.5 cm. long. Sepals 7–9 mm. long, with a tomentellous margin; receptacle 3.5–4 mm. long. Petals 2–3 mm. long. Stamens 12–30; filaments ± 22 mm. long; anthers 2 mm. long. Ovary ellipsoid-spherical, becoming almost globose. Fruits globose, ± 2 cm. in diameter when mature, somewhat shiny, verruculose.
Range
DISTR. T1, 4
Altitude range
760–1100 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Kigoma District Uvinza, 29 Aug. 1950, Bullock 3251 !;TANGANYIKA Mpanda District Rungwa, 16 Nov. 1933, Michelmore 764! & 764a!;TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kasanga, on headland near old Boma, 14 June 1957, Richards 10100 !
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique
Northern Rhodesia
Congo
Sudan
Somali (N.) Republics

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