Maerua juncea juncea
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Flower
17 Sep 2013
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17 Sep 2013
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Habit
17 Sep 2013
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Flower
03 Oct 2019
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Fruit
03 Oct 2019
| Family: | Capparaceae |
| Full name: | Maerua juncea Pax subsp. juncea |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Lammerdrol |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Maerua angustifolia Schinz - 1888, non (Harv.) Schinz 1897-- nom.illegit. (ill.) Maerua flagellaris (Oliv.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. Maerua guerichii Pax Maerua kassakalla De Wild. fide Fl. Congo Belge II, 493 Maerua maschonica Gilg - p.p., quoad specim. Engler 3157 Maerua nervosa (Hochst.) Oliv. var. flagellaris Oliv. fide Bot. Jahrb. 53, 244 |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Woody climber or scrambling shrub, growing into the canopy of other trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, grey-green, 1-3 foliolate, narrowly elliptic to ovate, rounded at the apex but with a bristle-tip. Flowers clustered near the ends of branches, white with very small petals and a hemispherical head of long, conspicuous stamens. Fruits ellipsoid with a smooth surface, green to orange when ripe. See subsp. crustata, which is only easily distinguished when in fruit, these being very rough-skinned, resembling small lemons. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
