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Niebuhria oblongifolia

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Identification
Niebuhria oblongifolia (Forssk.) DC. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, null Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Maerua oblongifolia
  • Niebuhria oblongifolia
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Flora

Entry for MÆRUA oblongifolia Rich. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 73, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
MÆRUA oblongifolia Rich. [family ], Fl. Abyss. i. 32. —Rich. Fl. Abyss. Ic. 6.
Niebuhria oblongifolia DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prod. i. 244.
MÆRUA angustifolia Rich. [family ], in Fl. Seneg. 29. t. 8.
Information
A shrub or small tree, the branches slender, glabrous smooth or minutely scabrid-puberulous. Leaves simple, rather coriaceous, oblong to narrow linear-oblong, obtuse or sometimes retuse, often mucronate, glabrous, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 4–9-lines broad. Petiole 1–3 lines. Flowers in terminal racemes or corymbs or terminating short lateral shoots, the lower flowers in the axils of leaves, the bracts of the upper minute or obsolete. Calyx-tube tubular, rather shorter than or sometimes exceeding the oval rather acute lobes. Petals narrow-oval, clawed. Free disk-margin 0 or very minute, toothed. Columnar torus exceeding the calyx-tube. Ovary linear 1-celled with 2-multiovulate placentas; stigma sessile. Fruit interrupted or torulose, not exceeding 1 in. in length in our specimens, on a gynophore of 3/4–1 1/4 in.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Roth!White Nile Nile Land Speke and Grant!Nile Land Khartoum, Brownell!North Central Kouka, E. Vogel!Senegambia Upper Guinea Perrottet!
Notes
Very nearly allied to the Indian M. arenaria, Hook. f. et Thoms. (Niebuhria arenaria, DC.; Capparis heteroclita, Roxb.), differing in its rather longer calyx-tube.

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