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Maerua juncea [family CAPPARACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Maerua juncea [family CAPPARACEAE]
Information
Small shrub, straggler or climber up to 5 m high; young branches green, longitudinally striate. Leaves l(2)3-foliolate; leaflets linear, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, ovate or more rarely obovate, 2-2-7-5 cm long, the median the longer, 0- 5-2 cm wide, apex obtuse, round or occasionally emarginate, with prominent mucro up to 2-5 mm long, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins entire, lateral veins 4 or 5, looping before the margin to form conspicuous submarginal vein, chartaceous, sometimes somewhat fleshy, often glaucous, glabrous, sometimes at angle to petiole; petiole 0-3-4-5 cm long; petiolule 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence of 2-8-flowered lax raÂcemes at the ends of the branches or solitary in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels up to 3-5 cm long. Receptacles infundibular, 5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide at apex, faintly ribbed; disc lobed, with lobes unequally laciniate, 1-2 mm long. Sepals 4, elliptic, 1-7-1-9 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, apex acute and navicular, glabrous or puberulous, ciliate on margins. Petals 4, white, elliptic, ovate, broadly ovate or rotund, 3-5-9 mm long, 2-4 -5 mm wide, clawed, apex acuminate acute, obtuse or rounded. Androphore c. 4 mm long, usually equalling receptacle. Stamens 20-45, up to 2-1 cm long; anthers 2 mm long. Gynophore 1-9-2-2 mm long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, 3-5-5 mm long; ovules c 40; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruits ellipsoid, sometimes tending to cylindrical, up to 4-5 cm long and 2-5 cm diam., colliculate or corrugated with colliculate islands or pillars. Seeds 10-20, subglobose, angled, up to 7 mm diam., rugose.
Use
3. Maerua juncea Pax in Bot. Jahrb 14 : 302 (1891). Type : Tanzania, between Magu & Kagehi, Fischer 18 (B, holo.!; PRE, photo.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Maerua juncea [family CAPPARACEAE]
Information
Small shrub, straggler or climber up to 5 m high; young branches green, longitudinally striate. Leaves l(2)3-foliolate; leaflets linear, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, ovate or more rarely obovate, 2-2-7-5 cm long, the median the longer, 0- 5-2 cm wide, apex obtuse, round or occasionally emarginate, with prominent mucro up to 2-5 mm long, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins entire, lateral veins 4 or 5, looping before the margin to form conspicuous submarginal vein, chartaceous, sometimes somewhat fleshy, often glaucous, glabrous, sometimes at angle to petiole; petiole 0-3-4-5 cm long; petiolule 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence of 2-8-flowered lax raÂcemes at the ends of the branches or solitary in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels up to 3-5 cm long. Receptacles infundibular, 5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide at apex, faintly ribbed; disc lobed, with lobes unequally laciniate, 1-2 mm long. Sepals 4, elliptic, 1-7-1-9 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, apex acute and navicular, glabrous or puberulous, ciliate on margins. Petals 4, white, elliptic, ovate, broadly ovate or rotund, 3-5-9 mm long, 2-4 -5 mm wide, clawed, apex acuminate acute, obtuse or rounded. Androphore c. 4 mm long, usually equalling receptacle. Stamens 20-45, up to 2-1 cm long; anthers 2 mm long. Gynophore 1-9-2-2 mm long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, 3-5-5 mm long; ovules c 40; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruits ellipsoid, sometimes tending to cylindrical, up to 4-5 cm long and 2-5 cm diam., colliculate or corrugated with colliculate islands or pillars. Seeds 10-20, subglobose, angled, up to 7 mm diam., rugose.
Use
3. Maerua juncea Pax in Bot. Jahrb 14 : 302 (1891). Type : Tanzania, between Magu & Kagehi, Fischer 18 (B, holo.!; PRE, photo.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Maerua juncea [family CAPPARACEAE]
Information
Small shrub, straggler or climber up to 5 m high; young branches green, longitudinally striate. Leaves l(2)3-foliolate; leaflets linear, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, ovate or more rarely obovate, 2-2-7-5 cm long, the median the longer, 0- 5-2 cm wide, apex obtuse, round or occasionally emarginate, with prominent mucro up to 2-5 mm long, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins entire, lateral veins 4 or 5, looping before the margin to form conspicuous submarginal vein, chartaceous, sometimes somewhat fleshy, often glaucous, glabrous, sometimes at angle to petiole; petiole 0-3-4-5 cm long; petiolule 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence of 2-8-flowered lax raÂcemes at the ends of the branches or solitary in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels up to 3-5 cm long. Receptacles infundibular, 5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide at apex, faintly ribbed; disc lobed, with lobes unequally laciniate, 1-2 mm long. Sepals 4, elliptic, 1-7-1-9 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, apex acute and navicular, glabrous or puberulous, ciliate on margins. Petals 4, white, elliptic, ovate, broadly ovate or rotund, 3-5-9 mm long, 2-4 -5 mm wide, clawed, apex acuminate acute, obtuse or rounded. Androphore c. 4 mm long, usually equalling receptacle. Stamens 20-45, up to 2-1 cm long; anthers 2 mm long. Gynophore 1-9-2-2 mm long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, 3-5-5 mm long; ovules c 40; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruits ellipsoid, sometimes tending to cylindrical, up to 4-5 cm long and 2-5 cm diam., colliculate or corrugated with colliculate islands or pillars. Seeds 10-20, subglobose, angled, up to 7 mm diam., rugose.
Use
3. Maerua juncea Pax in Bot. Jahrb 14 : 302 (1891). Type : Tanzania, between Magu & Kagehi, Fischer 18 (B, holo.!; PRE, photo.).
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