Maerua

Accepted species 70 Documented here 11 Family Capparaceae

Accepted species 70 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Maerua afra (DC.) Pax 107 documented
Maerua schinzii Pax 27 documented
Maerua parvifolia Pax 25 documented
Maerua rosmarinoides (Sond.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 23 documented
Maerua crassifolia Forssk. 14 documented
Maerua racemulosa (DC.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 12 documented
Maerua nervosa (Hochst.) Oliv. 10 documented
Maerua angolensis DC. 8 documented
Maerua juncea Pax 8 documented
Maerua edulis (Gilg & Gilg-Ben.) DeWolf 7 documented
Maerua filiformis Drake 3 documented
Maerua apetala (B.Heyne ex Roth) M.Jacobs 3 below the evidence gate
Maerua gilgii Schinz 3 below the evidence gate
Maerua subcordata (Gilg) DeWolf 2 below the evidence gate
Maerua acuminata Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua aethiopica (Fenzl) Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua andradae Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua arenaria Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua baillonii Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua boranensis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua brevipetiolata Killick 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua brunnescens Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua bussei (Gilg & Gilg-Ben.) R.Wilczek 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua buxifolia (Welw. ex Oliv.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua calantha Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua candida Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua cylindrocarpa Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua decumbens (Brongn.) DeWolf 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua denhardtiorum Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua descampsii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua dewaillyi Aubrév. & Pellegr. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua duchesnei (De Wild.) F.White 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua elegans R.Wilczek 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua emini Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua endlichii Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua erlangeriana Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua friesii Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua gilgiana De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua gillettii Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua glauca Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua grantii Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua holstii Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua homblei De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua humbertii Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua intricata Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua kaessneri Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua kaokoensis Swanepoel 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua kirkii (Oliv.) F.White 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua koratensis Srisanga & Watthana 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua macrantha Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua mendesii J.A.Abreu, E.S.Martins & Catarino 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua mungaii Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua nana R.A.Graham ex Polhill 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua nuda Scott Elliot 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua oblongifolia (Forssk.) A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua paniculata Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua pintobastoae J.A.Abreu, E.S.Martins & Catarino 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua polyandra R.A.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua prittwitzii Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua pseudopetalosa (Gilg & Gilg-Ben.) DeWolf 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua puccionii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua purpurascens Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua robynsii R.Wilczek 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua salicifolia Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua scandens (Klotzsch) Müll.Berol. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua schliebenii Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua sessiliflora Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua siamensis (Kurz) Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua somalensis Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Maerua triphylla A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.