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Cleome diandra

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Name

Identification
Cleome diandra Burch. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Kers, L.E., Cleome angustifolia Not on sheet. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cleome pubella
  • Cleome hirta
  • Cleome angustifolia
  • Cleome diandra
  • Cleome didynama
  • Cleome hildebrandtii

Flora

Entry for DIANTHERA Burchelliana Kl. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 54, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
DIANTHERA Burchelliana Kl. [family ], l. c. p. 161. in note
Cleome diandra Burch. [family CAPPARACEAE], Trav. 1. p. 548.
Polanisia dianthera DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], l. c. p. 242.
Information
glaucous, the stem rough with minute-hooked prickles; lower leaves on longish petioles, 7- foliolate, upper on shorter petioles 3–5-foliolate; leaflets very narrow-linear, obtuse; petals unequal, obovate; fertile stamens 2, sterile 6, shorter, with a conical-oblong appendicule; pods linear, pendulous, glabrous. Annual, 2 feet high, slender, armed in the lower part with rigid, recurved prickles; branches erecto-patent, striate. Middle leaflets an inch long, 1/2 line wide. Flowers rosy (?), size of the preceding. Pedicels 8 lines long. Pods 2–2 1/2 inches long, 1 1/2 lines wide; style beaklike, 2 lines long; thecaphore 4 lines long. Seeds as in D. Petersiana.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Gattikamma, Feb., Burchell. Stony hills at Zwartbulletze and at Gamkeriver, 2500–3000f. Drege. (Herb. Sond.)

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