3082.000 Cleome L.

Description of the genus

Herbs (in ours), sometimes shrubby below, often glandular. Leaves digitately 3-9-foliolate or rarely simple (monophylla). Flowers zygomorphic, in terminal racemes. Sepals 4, often glandular. Petals 4. Stamens 2-many, all fertile or some sterile. Androgynophore 0 or very short (except in C. gynandra where it is longer than the corolla). Gynophore 0 or short. Fruit a 2-valved, dehiscent capsule, often borne on an elongated gynophore.

Worldwide: 150 species from tropical and warm areas

Caprivi: 4 taxa.

Cleome hirta

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SpeciesContent
elegantissima Briq.
gynandra L.Description, Image
hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv.Description, Image
iberidella Welw. ex Oliv.

Other sources of information about Cleome:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Cleome
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Cleome
Flora of Malawi: Cleome
Flora of Mozambique: Cleome
Flora of Zambia: Cleome
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cleome
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cleome

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cleome
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cleome
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cleome
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cleome
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cleome
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cleome
JSTOR Plant Science: Cleome
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cleome
Plants of the World Online: Cleome
Tropicos: Cleome
Wikipedia: Cleome

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Caprivi: Genus page: Cleome.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=627, retrieved 19 March 2024

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