WorldFloraDB - Maerua bussei

Characteristics

Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall.. Young branches glabrous or sometimes densely puberulous.. Leaves petiolate, simple or 3-foliolate; blade elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 6.5–15 cm. long, 2.5–6.5 cm. wide, acutely acuminate to obtuse, leathery, glabrous or puberulous on the nerves beneath; nervation finely reticulate and the midrib very prominent beneath; petiole up to 10 cm. long, but often very much shorter.. Inflorescence an elegant, densely corymbose, terminal raceme; pedicels ± 2 cm. long in flower, up to 6 cm. in fruit, glabrous or sparsely puberulous.. Sepals 7–11 mm. long, glabrous; receptacle short, 1.5–2 mm. long.. Petals ± 15 mm. long, white or tinged with green.. Stamens ± 80; filaments ± 2 cm. long, white with an indigo base.. Ovary subspheroid, glabrous.. Fruits pendulous, spheroid, up to 2 cm. in diameter; pericarp smooth, green and pruinose, glabrous.

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Leaves simple or 3-foliolate; leaf-lamina (or leaflet) 7–12 x 2.5–6 cm., coriaceous, oblanceolate oblanceolate-elliptic or elliptic, apex acute, retuse or rounded, mucronate, base cuneate or very narrowly rounded, glabrous and finely reticulately veined on both sides; simple leaves on wrinkled puberulous or glabrescent petioles up to 6 mm. long, 3-foliolate leaves on petioles up to 10 cm. long; petiolules 2–3 mm. long, wrinkled.

Inflorescence of terminal corymbose racemes; rhachis 1–3 cm. long, glabrous; pedicels up to 6 cm. long, glabrous; bracts c. 4 mm. long, trifid, middle lobe caducous, filamentous lateral lobes 1 mm. long, persistent as scales at the base of old inflorescences.

Ovary on a gynophore c. 3.5 cm. long, ovoid-globose; ovules 4 on 2 placentas; style 0.5 mm. long; stigma capitate.

Receptacle 1.5 mm. tall, 1.5 mm. wide at the mouth, funnel-shaped, inner margin thickened and slightly undulate.

Stamens c. 60; filaments c. 3 cm., long; anthers 1.5 x 0.75 mm., broadly oblong.

Dense shrub 2–4 m. high with glabrous, sulcate branchlets.

Petals c. 1.6 x 0.5 cm., oblanceolate, apex acuminate.

Androgynophore slightly exserted from the receptacle.

Sepals c. 1 x 0.4 cm., lanceolate, apex acuminate.

Seeds up to 4, c. 10 mm. long, oblong-ellipsoid.

Fruit c. 2 cm. in diam., globose, smooth.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
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Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

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Usage

Uses	medicinal
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147664-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001290547
COL ID	3XFTC
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Synonyms

Capparis bussei Maerua bussei

WorldFloraDB 2024

Maerua bussei (Gilg & Beneolict) R.Wilczek

Species