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Cleome hochstetteri

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Identification
Isotype of Cleome hochstetteri (Eichl.) Cufod. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Cleome didynama Hochst. ex Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dianthera abyssinica Schweinf. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Isotype of Dianthera hochstetteri Eichl. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Dianthera abyssinica
  • Cleome hochstetteri
  • Cleome didynama
  • Dianthera hochstetteri

Flora

Entry for CLEOME diandra Burch. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1964) Author: J. ELFFERS, R. A. GRAHAM AND G. P. DEWOLF
Names
CLEOME diandra Burch. [family CAPPARACEAE], Trav. 1: 548 (1822); F.T.A. 1: 79 (1868); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 166 (1915); Exell & Mendonça in C.F.A. 1: 58 (1937); W.F.K.: 7 (1948); F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. A.-E. Sudan 1: 44 (1950); Wild in F.Z. 1: 201, frontis. & t. 30C (1960). Type: South Africa, Griqualand West, Clearwater, Burchell 2103 (BM, K, iso. !)
Dianthera hochstetteri Eichl. [family ], in Flora 48: 550 (1865). Type: Ethiopia, Goellab, Schimper 2227 (BM, K, iso. !)
Cleome didynama Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE], in F.T.A. 1: 79 (1868); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 166 (1915), nom. illegit. Types: as Dianthera hochstetteri Eichl.
Cleome hochstetteri (Eichl.) Cuf. [family CAPPARACEAE], Enum. Pl. Aeth. in B.J.B.B. 24, Suppl.: 121 (1954)
Information
Annual herb, simple or branched, up to 4.5 dm. or more tall, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Stem sometimes with a few minute prickles and sometimes rather rough with scars of old leaf-bases. Leaves petiolate, (3–)5–7(–9)-foliolate; leaflets filiform-linear to narrowly linear-oblanceolate, up to 40 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; petiole 1.5–4 cm. long. Inflorescence rather lax, 4–20 cm. long. Sepals linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, up to 1 cm. long. Petals unequal, yellow, mauve at the base. Stamens 2–4; staminodes 4–12. Gynophore 5–15 mm. long. Capsules 7–10 cm. long. Seeds 1.5 mm. in diameter, densely pilose when mature. Fig. 2/1, p. 10.
Range
DISTR. K1–4, 6; T2 Sudan Republic and Ethiopia, also Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and Angola to Cape Province, South Africa
Altitude range
400–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District 41.6 km. SW. of Lodwar, 12 May 1953, Padwa 140 !;KENYA Masai District Magadi, 23 Dec. 1956, Napper 573 ! & new Magadi road, Ngong, Bally 7131 !TANGANYIKA Masai District Ketumbane, 7 Jan. 1936, Greenway 4278 ! & Engaruka, 5 Feb. 1932, St. Clair-Thompson 331 !
Notes
C. hochstetteri differs in no way from C. diandra except in having 4 fertile stamens. This is not regarded as adequate for taxonomic distinction, especially as in one example of C. diandra the fertile stamens numbered 3.

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