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Internal ID UUID64405ad8393ec838200532
Scientific name Maerua kirkii
Authority (Oliv.) F.White
First published in Bol. Soc. Brot. , sér. 2, 32: 33 (1958)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Capparis kirkii Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 98 (1868)

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Zaïre

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World Flora Online wfo-0001290534
Tropicos 5900755
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147723-1
The Plant List tro-5900755
Open Tree Of Life 684762
NCBI Taxonomy 202646
IPNI 147723-1
GBIF 3871465
EOL 5163360

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Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Conservation of Wild Food Plants and Their Potential for Combatting Food Insecurity in Kenya as Exemplified by the Drylands of Kitui County Mutie FM, Rono PC, Kathambi V, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 12-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7464302
doi:10.3390/plants9081017
PMID:32806636
Field data on Vegetation Structure and Effects of Human Use of the Dambos Ecosystem in Northern Mozambique Mbanze AA, Mário AM, Rivaes R, Ribeiro-Barros AI, Ribeiro NS Data Brief 12-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6811917
doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104454
PMID:31667226

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