Maerua schinzii
| Family: | Capparaceae |
| Full name: | Maerua schinzii Pax |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2415AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Kringboom, Lammerdrol, Kwarda |
| English common name(s): | Ringwood tree, Ringwood bead-bean |
| Synonym(s): | Maerua arenicola Gilg fide Fl. S. Africa 13: 170 Maerua paxii Schinz fide Fl. S. Africa 13: 170 |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Tree, usually erect, sometimes branched below, up to 7 m high; bark smooth, white or reddish brown; young branches yellowish green or beige, lenticellate, puberulous, rarely glabrous. Leaves simple, petiolate; lamina elliptic to ovate, 2-6 cm long, 1-3.5 (-7-3) cm wide, apex obtuse, rounded or emarginate, mucronate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margins entire, lateral veins 4, looping before margin, somewhat immersed, coriaceous, puberulous, sometimes glabrous, yellowish green; petiole 0.8-3.0 cm long, sometimes very slender, swollen and channelled in upper half, puberulous. Inflorescence of terminal racemes; pedicels 0-8-2-5 cm long, puberulous to tomentulose. Receptacle slender, infundibular or cylindric, 0.5-1.2 cm long, 2-3 mm wide at mouth, glabrous, puberulous or tomentulose; disc coronate, c. 2-5 mm long, unequally laciniate. Sepals 4, elliptic-obovate, 11-15 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, apex acute, obtuse or rounded, somewhat cucullate and apiculate, glabrous or puberulous. Petals 0. Androphore 5-7 mm long, equal or exerted 2 mm above receptacle. Stamens 30-70, 1.4-1.6 cm long; anthers oblong, 1.5-2 mm long. Gynophore 1.5-2 cm long. Ovary ellipsoid-cylindrical, 0-5-1 cm long; ovules 30-40; stigma capitate. Fruit moniliform, up to 12 cm long, 0.5-1 cm diam., faintly colliculate; seeds round, c. 0-5 cm diam., granulate. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| 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 |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 22 Mar 2013 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/800 s |
| ISO speed: | 400 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
