Maerua racemulosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Brassicales
- Family
- Capparaceae
- Genus
- Maerua
- Species
- Maerua racemulosa
- Scientific Name
- Maerua racemulosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Maerua racemulosa
Maerua racemulosa is a species of plant in the Capparaceae family, which is almost endemic to South Africa's coastal regions, where it is a constituent of shady forest understory and valley bushveld. They are shrubs or small trees, with mostly simple leaves, and entire margins. They flower profusely in mid-winter. Each flower bears numerous white filaments and a purple style, but no petals. The round fruit appear from August to October. These are yellow when ripe and 1 cm in diameter. It is a food plant for some species of Colotis butterfly.
...Maerua racemulosa in languages:
- Afrikaans
- wildepatat
- Afrikaans
- wilde-patat
- English
- Forest Bushcherry
- English
- Forest Bush-Cherry
- English
- Forest Maerua
- English
- Forest Spider Bush
- English
- Forest Spiderbush
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Parent Taxon
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- Maerua andradae
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- Maerua brevipetiolata
- Maerua brunnescens
- Maerua bussei
- Maerua buxifolia
- Maerua cafra
- Maerua calantha
- Maerua candida
- Maerua crassifolia
- Maerua cylindrocarpa
- Maerua decumbens
- Maerua denhardtiorum
- Maerua descampsii
- Maerua dewaillyi
- Maerua duchesnei
- Maerua edulis
- Maerua elegans
- Maerua eminii
- Maerua endlichii
- Maerua erlangeriana
- Maerua filiformis
- Maerua gilgii
- Maerua homblei
- Maerua humbertii
- Maerua juncea
- Maerua kaokoensis
- Maerua kirkii
- Maerua koratensis
- Maerua nervosa
- Maerua nuda
- Maerua oblongifolia
- Maerua parvifolia
- Maerua prittwitzii
- Maerua racemulosa
- Maerua rosmarinoides
- Maerua salicifolia
- Maerua scandens
- Maerua schinzii
- Maerua siamensis
- Maerua subcordata
- Maerua triphylla

















































































































































