Maerua friesii Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
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Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
Photo: Jonathan Francis
Mutendele Bush Camp, Kafue National Park
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Maerua monticola Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
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Description:
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Evergreen climber or scrambling shrub. Branches blackish-puberulous. Leaves simple or trifoliolate on sterile branches; leaflets (narrowly) ovate, up to 10.5 × 4.5 cm, shiny green and hairless above except for the puberulous midrib, finely glandular hairy or hairless below with 5-6 pairs of prominent lateral veins; petiole 1-4 cm long in trifoliolate leaves, very short in simple leaves. Flowers in short axillary and terminal racemes, sometimes solitary in the upper axils; petals present, whitish, 3-5 mm long, puberulous on the margins and inside; stamens 50-60, up to 1.5-2 cm long. Fruit oblong-cylindric or ovoid, up to 1.5-3 cm long with 4 shallow ridges along the length and with minute bumps. |
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DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Malawi distribution:
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Thursday 3 November 2022 |
Literature:
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Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 238.
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 32.
Wild, H. (1960). Capparaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 221 - 223. (Includes a picture).
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-23
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2023).
Flora of Malawi: Species information: Maerua friesii. https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=124620, retrieved 7 February 2023
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