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Cleome pentaphylla

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Name

Identification
Cleome gynandra L. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Cleome pentaphylla L. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Gynandropsis pentaphylla DC. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briquet [family CAPPARACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cleome pentaphylla
  • Gynandropsis pentaphylla
  • Cleome gynandra
  • Cleome speciosa
  • Gynandropsis gynandra
Common name
  • Cat’s-whiskers, Flora of North America Vol. 7

Flora

Entry for GYNANDROPSIS pentaphylla DC. [family CAPPARACEAE]
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
GYNANDROPSIS pentaphylla DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prod. 1. p. 238.
Cleome pentaphylla Lin. [family CAPPARACEAE], Sp. 938. Bot. Mag. 1681.
Cleome Eckloniana Schrad. [family CAPPARACEAE], Ind. Sem Gott. 1834.
Cleome heterotricha Burch. [family CAPPARACEAE], Trav. 1 p. 537. DC. l. c.
Information
glabrescent; middle leaves 5-foliolate, lowest and floral leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate, ntir or subserrulate; pods linear. Annual, a foot or more high, branching, covered with long and short, and mostly glandular, clammy hairs. Lower and middle leaves on long petioles, upper subsessile, and much smaller. Leaflets 1/2–1 inch long, 4 lines wide. Pedicels 1/2 inch long, lengthening in fruit. Petals white or pale rosy. Pods 2 inches long or more, on a stipe 1/2 inch long, glandularly rough, tipped with a short style and broad stigma. Seeds reniform, rough with little pustules.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On hills. Asbestos Mts., Burchell. Macallisberg, Zeyher. Interior regions, Wahlberg. (Herb. Holm. Sond.)

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