Maerua juncea subsp. crustata Wild Wild [family CAPPARIDACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 194, (1960) Author: H. Wild
Names
Maerua maschonica Gilg [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 53: 240 (1915) pro parte quoad specim. Galpin. — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 122 (1926) pro parte excl. specim. Engler.
Maerua flagellaris subsp. crustata Wild [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Ser. 2, 32: 48 (1958). Type as above.
Maerua nervosa [family CAPPARIDACEAE], sensu Bak. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 20 (1911).
Maerua flagellaris [family CAPPARIDACEAE], sensu O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 16 (1952) pro parte quoad specim. Lugard. \"flagellaria\".
Maerua juncea subsp. crustata Wild Wild [family CAPPARIDACEAE], comb. nov. Type: Transvaal, Pretoria, Codd din (K, holotype; PRE; SRGH ).
Information
Petals broadly elliptic, ratio of length to breadth 1: 0.43–0.81. Fruit with a very rough pericarp.
Habitat
The ecology and habit of this subspecies are similar to those of subsp. juncea.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Porto Henrique, fl. & fr. Barbosa 640 (BM; LISC).Zimbabwe S Ndanga, Mtilikwe R., fr. 11.x.1951, Seymour-Hall 41/51 (K; SRGH).Botswana SE Mochudi, fl. & fr. i.1915, Harbor in Herb. Transv. Mus. 17021 (PRE).Zimbabwe E Hot Springs, fr. 22.x.1948, Chase 1489 (BM; K; SRGH).Mozambique GI between Caniçado and Xirunzú, fr. 12.xii.1940, Torre 2366 (BM; LISC; SRGH).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. & fr. 14.xii.1898, Lugard 135a (K).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
Zululand
Notes
It is readily distinguished in fruit, but in flower only the petals offer a diagnostic feature of any value and even here there is an overlap. The areas of distribution of the two can be divided by a line running through the more northerly part of SE. Bechuanaland, the Southern Division of S. Rhodesia and the Sul do Save Province of Mozambique with subsp. juncea to the north and subsp. crustata to the south.
Maerua juncea subsp. crustata Wild Wild [family CAPPARIDACEAE]
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