Cleome trinerviaFresen. 1834 [family CAPPARIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Cleome trinervia
Cleome glauca
Cleome rupicola
Cleome oxypetala
Flora
Entry for CLEOME trinervia Fresen. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 73, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
CLEOME trinerviaFresen. [family CAPPARACEAE], in Mus. Senck. i. 177. t. xi.
Information
Branches 1–2 ft., glandular-setulose. Leaves lanceolate ovate-lanceolate or oval, rather acute, more or less densely glandular, 3-nerved below, 1 in. long or less in our specimens, on petioles of 1/2 in. or shorter. Racemes at length elongate, Bracts oval or linear, shorter than the pedicels or obsolete. Sepals lanceolate to ovate, 3–4 times shorter than the oval clawed petals. Stamens 6. Fruit linear-oval, sessile or subsessile, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, about 3 lines broad, pendu-lous, on patent pedicels; valves scabrid. Style very short or stigma subsessile. Seeds pilose.
Range
I have only seen specimens from Arabia and Upper Egypt, but it is likely to occur south of the tropic.
