Maerua junceaPax

WFO wfo-0000375657 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. a Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-10-23 / obs. 81855101
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. b Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182756662
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. c Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 81855566
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. d Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182756678
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. e Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 81855188
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. f Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182756687
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. g Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 81855479
Maerua juncea, photographed by Dave U
fig. h Dave U, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182756720

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Maerua juncea is native: Botswana, DR Congo, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe BotswanaDR CongoEswatiniKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Maerua juncea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Botswana BOT AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Maerua angustifolia Schinz
  • Maerua flagellaris (Oliv.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben.
  • Maerua flagellaris subsp. crustata Wild
  • Maerua guerichii Pax
  • Maerua kassakalla De Wild.
  • Maerua maschonica Gilg
  • Maerua nervosa var. flagellaris Oliv.
  • Maerua ramosissima Gilg

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.