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Maerua scandens Klotzsch Gilg [family CAPPARIDACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 nervosa Hochst. Oliv. [family CAPPARIDACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 84 (1868) pro parte quoad specim. Peters ex Boror.
Streblocarpus scandens Klotzsch [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 165 (1861). Type as above.
Maerua scandens Klotzsch Gilg [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 33: 223 (1902). — Gilg & Bened., op. cit. 53: 246 (1915). Type: Mozambique, Boror, Peters (B, holotype).
Information
Small shrub or climber, glabrous except for the sepal margins; branches green, smooth and longitudinally striate. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 2–5 x 0.7–2 cm., lanceolate to ovate, attenuate to a mucronate and sometimes recurved apex, base broadly cuneate or narrowly rounded; lateral nerves in 5–7 pairs, prominent below, looped within the margin, veins laxly reticulate; petiole c. 2.5 cm. long; petiolules c. 2 mm. long. Inflorescence of 2–5-flowered, lax, terminal racemes, often borne on short side branches; pedicels up to 2 cm. long; bracts trifid, up to 2 mm. long, subulate. Receptacle 3 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. in diam. at the mouth, funnel-shaped; sepals 1.2–1.7 x 0.35–0.7 cm., oblong-elliptic, rounded at the minutely mucronulate apex, margins densely puberulous. Petals whitish, 7.5 x 2.5–4 mm., elliptic to obovate, blunt or acute at the apex, shortly clawed at the base. Androgynophore as long as the receptacle. Stamens 40–50; filaments up to 2.5 cm. long. Ovary on a gynophore up to 2.5 cm. long, oblong-cylindric; ovules 36–40 on 2 placentas; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit not seen.
Habitat
In dense coastal Brachystegia woodland, apparently rather rare.
Range
Known only from Mozambique.
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique Z Boror, fl. Peters (B).Mozambique GI Chibuto, fl. 16.vii.1944, Torre 6781 (BM; LISC; SRGH).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 nervosa Hochst. Oliv. [family CAPPARIDACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 84 (1868) pro parte quoad specim. Peters ex Boror.
Streblocarpus scandens Klotzsch [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 165 (1861). Type as above.
Maerua scandens Klotzsch Gilg [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 33: 223 (1902). — Gilg & Bened., op. cit. 53: 246 (1915). Type: Mozambique, Boror, Peters (B, holotype).
Information
Small shrub or climber, glabrous except for the sepal margins; branches green, smooth and longitudinally striate. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 2–5 x 0.7–2 cm., lanceolate to ovate, attenuate to a mucronate and sometimes recurved apex, base broadly cuneate or narrowly rounded; lateral nerves in 5–7 pairs, prominent below, looped within the margin, veins laxly reticulate; petiole c. 2.5 cm. long; petiolules c. 2 mm. long. Inflorescence of 2–5-flowered, lax, terminal racemes, often borne on short side branches; pedicels up to 2 cm. long; bracts trifid, up to 2 mm. long, subulate. Receptacle 3 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. in diam. at the mouth, funnel-shaped; sepals 1.2–1.7 x 0.35–0.7 cm., oblong-elliptic, rounded at the minutely mucronulate apex, margins densely puberulous. Petals whitish, 7.5 x 2.5–4 mm., elliptic to obovate, blunt or acute at the apex, shortly clawed at the base. Androgynophore as long as the receptacle. Stamens 40–50; filaments up to 2.5 cm. long. Ovary on a gynophore up to 2.5 cm. long, oblong-cylindric; ovules 36–40 on 2 placentas; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit not seen.
Habitat
In dense coastal Brachystegia woodland, apparently rather rare.
Range
Known only from Mozambique.
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique Z Boror, fl. Peters (B).Mozambique GI Chibuto, fl. 16.vii.1944, Torre 6781 (BM; LISC; SRGH).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 nervosa Hochst. Oliv. [family CAPPARIDACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 84 (1868) pro parte quoad specim. Peters ex Boror.
Streblocarpus scandens Klotzsch [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 165 (1861). Type as above.
Maerua scandens Klotzsch Gilg [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 33: 223 (1902). — Gilg & Bened., op. cit. 53: 246 (1915). Type: Mozambique, Boror, Peters (B, holotype).
Information
Small shrub or climber, glabrous except for the sepal margins; branches green, smooth and longitudinally striate. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 2–5 x 0.7–2 cm., lanceolate to ovate, attenuate to a mucronate and sometimes recurved apex, base broadly cuneate or narrowly rounded; lateral nerves in 5–7 pairs, prominent below, looped within the margin, veins laxly reticulate; petiole c. 2.5 cm. long; petiolules c. 2 mm. long. Inflorescence of 2–5-flowered, lax, terminal racemes, often borne on short side branches; pedicels up to 2 cm. long; bracts trifid, up to 2 mm. long, subulate. Receptacle 3 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. in diam. at the mouth, funnel-shaped; sepals 1.2–1.7 x 0.35–0.7 cm., oblong-elliptic, rounded at the minutely mucronulate apex, margins densely puberulous. Petals whitish, 7.5 x 2.5–4 mm., elliptic to obovate, blunt or acute at the apex, shortly clawed at the base. Androgynophore as long as the receptacle. Stamens 40–50; filaments up to 2.5 cm. long. Ovary on a gynophore up to 2.5 cm. long, oblong-cylindric; ovules 36–40 on 2 placentas; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit not seen.
Habitat
In dense coastal Brachystegia woodland, apparently rather rare.
Range
Known only from Mozambique.
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique Z Boror, fl. Peters (B).Mozambique GI Chibuto, fl. 16.vii.1944, Torre 6781 (BM; LISC; SRGH).
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