Maerua buxifolia (Welw. ex Oliv.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 249 (1915)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. Angola toN. Zimbabwe. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.
Descriptions
Capparidaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Diagnostic
- Small shrub very like M. parvifolia but the leaves are entirely glabrous, free from papillae and more glaucous; but the most important diagnostic character is that the petioles are always entirely glabrous and smooth. This is never the case with M. parvifolia even in the more glabrescent forms.
Sources
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Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0