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Maerua thomsonii

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Name

Identification
Maerua socotrana (Schweinf. ex Balf.f.) Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Miller, A.G., Maerua angolensis unrecorded [family CAPPARACEAE ] Maerua thompsoni T.Anderson [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by De Wolf, G.P., Maerua thomsonii T.Anderson [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Maerua angolensis
  • Maerua thomsonii
  • Maerua thompsoni
  • Maerua crassifolia
  • Maerua socotrana

Flora

Entry for MAERUA thomsonii T. Anders. [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 thomsonii T. Anders. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1860).
MAERUA uniflora Vahl [family CAPPARACEAE], (1790), nom. illeg.;
MAERUA arabica J. F. Gmel. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1791), nom. illeg. [type as above]
Information
Shrub or tree; stems glabrous. Leaves clustered on older branches, simple; blade oblanceolate to obovate, 7–22 x 4–7 mm, usually obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, glabrous, midrib raised in basal part only, lateral nerves scarcely visible; petiole 2–5 mm long, slender. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters; pedicels 4–9 mm long, glabrous. Receptacle cylindrical, 3–5 mm long. Sepals 3–4, 4–5 mm long. Petals absent. Stamens c. 20–25; androgynophore exceeding the receptacle by 2–2.5 mm. Ovary narrowly cylindrical, c. 2 mm long; gynophore 8–10 mm long, straight or recurved in fruit. Fruit up to 3.5 x 0.6 cm, torulose, glabrous, 1–several-seeded.
Range
N2
Altitude range
215 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Watson 3255.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Eritrea
S Arabia

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