Sausage Bean Bush Cherry

nervosa: nerved, veined, referring to the conspicuous net-veining of the leaves.

Shrub or small tree up to c. 3 m tall. Leaves trifoliolate with occasional simple leaves present; leaflets up to 6 × 3.5 cm, ovate-elliptic to obovate, thinly textured, rather shiny on both surfaces, hairless with prominent veins; apex with a hair-like tip; margin entire. Flowers in axillary clusters; sepals green with puberulous margins; petals present, very small, white; stamens 10-20, up to c. 2 cm long. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, up to 3.5 × 2 cm, shiny reddish-yellow.

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Maerua scandens is a species of plant in the Capparaceae family. It is endemic to Mozambique.