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The genus Maerua is in the family Capparaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Maerua

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Maerua aethiopica (Fenzl) Oliv.	Accepted		TRO
Maerua angolensis DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Maerua apetala (Spreng.) M. Jacobs	Accepted		TRO
Maerua baillonii Hadj-Moust.	Accepted		TRO
Maerua buxifolia (Welw. ex Oliv.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Maerua cafra Pax	Accepted		TRO
Maerua cylindrocarpa Hadj-Moust.	Accepted		TRO
Maerua edulis Dewolf	Accepted		TRO
Maerua gilgii Schinz	Accepted		TRO
Maerua linearis (DC.) Pax	Accepted		TRO
Maerua nervosa Oliv.	Accepted		TRO
Maerua parvifolia Pax	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Maerua pseudopetalosa (Gilg & Gilg-Ben.) DeWolf	Accepted		TRO
Maerua pubescens Müll.Berol.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Maerua racemulosa Gilg & Ben.	Accepted		TRO
Maerua rosmarinoides Gilg & Ben.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 143 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Maerua. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Maerua. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 143 species names for the genus Maerua recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	11.2%
◕	Synonym	16	11.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	111	77.6%

All names

The status of the 150 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Maerua recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	11.3%
◕	Synonym	18	12.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	115	76.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 143 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Maerua, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	14	16	0	0	30	21.0%
	Low confidence	2	0	0	111	113	79.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Maerua, are as follows: