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Niebuhria caffra

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Name

Identification
Niebuhria caffra DC. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Maerua caffra
  • Niebuhria acutifolia
  • Niebuhria caffra
  • Niebuhria pedunculosa

Flora

Entry for NIEBUHRIA triphylla Wendl. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 54, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
NIEBUHRIA triphylla Wendl. [family CAPPARACEAE], in Bartl. & Wendl. Beytr., 2. p. 29
Capparis triphylla Thunb. [family CAPPARACEAE], Fl. Cap. p. 430.
Cratæva caffra Burch. [family ]
Cratæva avicularis Burch. [family ], —
NIEBUHRIA caffra DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prod. 1. p. 243, 244.
NIEBUHRIA avicularis DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prod. 1. p. 243, 244.
NIEBUHRIA oleoides DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prod. 1. p. 243, 244.
Information
leaves ternate, leaflets oblong, ovate-oblong or obovate, not conspicuously veined; raceme terminal, flowers without petals. A glabrous shrub, 2 or more feet high, with yellowish branches; branchlets leafy. Leaves coriaceous: petiole-furrowed, 4 lines to 1 1/2 inches long; leaflets articulated to the petiole, obtuse or retuse, with or without mucro, one nerved, obsoletely veined, dull green above, paler below, the middle one 1–2 inches long, lateral ones shorter. Flowers corymboso-racemose, axillary; peduncles 8–10 lines long. Calyx 1/2 inch long, subturbinate; segments oblong, acuminate, concave. Stamens flexuous, as long as calyx. Ovary on a stipe twice as long as the stamens; stigma discoid. Berry pyriform, 3/4 inch long, shorter than its stipe.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Banks of Kamtou and Zeekoe rivers, Thunberg. Caffraria, Burchell. In the forest of Adow, and by the Zwartkops R., Uitenhage, E. & Z., Port Natal, Gueinzius. (Herb. Sond., Lehm., T.C.D.)

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