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Cleome angustifolia

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Identification
Cleome angustifolia Forssk. [family CAPPARACEAE ]
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Entry for Cleome angustifolia subsp diandra [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cleome angustifolia subsp diandra [family CAPPARACEAE]
Common names
Cleome diandra Burch., Trav. 1 : 548 (1822); Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 166 (1915), partly; Dinter in Fedde, Repert. 16 : 167 (1919); Roessler in F.S.W. A. 47 : 9 (1966), partly. —var. pteropoda Welw. ex Oliv. in F.T.A. 1 : 80 (1868). Type : Angola, Mos-samedes, Welwitsch. C. angustifolia subsp. diandra var. diandra, Kers, I.e. (1969). —var. pteropoda (Welw. ex OHv.)Kers, I.e. (1969). —var. nama-quensis Kers, I.e. (1969). Type : S.W. Africa, Klein Karas, Oertendahl 61 (S, holo.!). —var. damarensis Kers, I.e. (1969). Type : S.W. Africa, Okahandja, Dinter 188a (COI, holo.!). Dianthera burchelliana Klotzsch ex Sond. in F.C. 1 : 58 (1860); Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1 : 160, t.27 (1861), nom. illegit. Type: as for C. diandra Burch. Polanisia dianthera DC, Prodr. 1 : 242 (1824); Stephens in Ann. S.A. Mus. 9 : 36 (1912), nom. illegit. Type : as for Cleome diandra Burch. P. diandra (Burch.)Dur. & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 1,2 : 162 (1897), partly. —var. pteropoda Welw. ex Oliv., C.F.A. 1,2 : 162 (1898). Type: Angola, Mossamedes, Welwitsch 963 (K, holo.!).
Habitat
Superficially similar to subsp. petersiana and the characters used to separate the two subspecies tend to break down where their distributions overlap, as may be expected.
Use
(b) subsp. diandra (Burch.)Kers in Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 63 : 21 (1969). Type : Cape Province, Klaarwater, Burchell 2103 (BM, holo.!; K!; PRE!).

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