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Cleome tenella

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Identification
Cleome tenella L. f. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet,
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Flora

Entry for CLEOME tenella L. f. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CLEOME tenella L. f. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1782).
Information
Annual herb, extremely slender; stem filiform, glabrous. Leaves (1–)3-foliolate, glabrous, the first leaves simple and with oblanceolate blades, other leaves with filiform leaflets; median leaflet up to 20–40 x 0.5–1 mm, the lateral somewhat shorter; petiole 0.6–1.2 cm long. Sepals 1–1.5 mm long. Petals pale yellow fading white with purplish veins, 2.5–5(–7) mm long. Stamens 6. Capsules (15–)30–65 x 1.5 mm, erect, glabrous. Seeds 0.5–0.8 mm in diam., brown, minutely rugulose.
Range
N1; C1, 2; S1 Socotra, Eritrea, Ethiopia and west to Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania
Altitude range
160–750 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 21936; Kuchar 15763; Thulin & Warfa 4683.
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Arabia
India

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