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Maerua oblongifolia

Botanic Family

Capparaceae

Author

(Forsskal) A. Richard

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Djibouti
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Ghana
• India
• Kenya
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Nigeria
• Oman
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Unarmed woody climbing shrub to 3m or small tree. Coriaceous mucronate glabrous leaves to 75mm x 30mm. Terminal racemes or corymbs of flowers with bracts, sepals to 12mm x 6mm, 4 greenish-white clawed petals to 10mm x 4mm. Fruit a fleshy pale brown glabrous berry to 35mmx 14mm

Further References

• Mobot
• FOTA
• AJPS
• The Plant List 2