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Pedicellaria pentaphylla

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Identification
Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank [family CAPPARIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq. [family CAPPARIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Wilczek R., 1949
Related name
  • Pedicellaria pentaphylla
  • Gynandropsis tracyi
  • Cleome speciosa
  • Gynandropsis gynandra
  • Cleome acuta

Flora

Entry for GYNANDROPSIS gynandra (L.) Briq. [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
GYNANDROPSIS gynandra (L.) Briq. [family CAPPARACEAE], in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 17: 382 (1914); Exell & Mendonça in C.F.A. 1: 58 (1937); W.F.K.: 7, fig. 9 (1948); F.P.N.A. 1: 200 (1948); F.W. Andr., Fl. Pl. A.-E. Sudan 1: 49, fig. 38 (1950); Hauman & Wilczek in F.C.B. 2: 519, t. 51 (1951); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 88 (1954); Wild in F.Z. 1: 205, t. 31 (1960); F.P.U.: 48, fig. 5 (1962). Type: cultivated plant (BM–CLIFF., holo. !)
Cleome gynandra L. [family CAPPARACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 671 (1753); Iltis in Brittonia 12: 283 (1960). Type as G. gynandra (L.) Briq.
Cleome pentaphylla L. [family CAPPARACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 938 (1763), nom illegit. Types as G. gynandra (L.) Briq.
Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank [family CAPPARACEAE], in Roem. & Ust., Mag. Bot. 3 (7): 11 (1790); Engl., Hochgeb. Trop. Afr.: 227 (1892); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 167 (1915); Gilg in V.E. 3(1): 230 (1915)
Cleome heterotricha Burch. [family CAPPARACEAE], Trav. 1: 537 (1822). Type: South Africa, Griqualand, Burchell 2011 (K, holo. !)
Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prodr. 1: 238 (1824); A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 26 (1847); F.T.A. 1: 82 (1868); W.F.K.: 7 (1948)
Gynandropsis heterotricha (Burch.) DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prodr. 1: 238 (1824)
Information
Annual herb, branched and rather stout, up to 1 m. tall. Stem thickly glandular, more rarely varying to glabrous. Leaves petiolate, 3–7-foliolate; leaflets obovate to elliptic, commonly about 2.5(–6) cm. long, l.4(–3.2) cm. wide, usually rather sparsely hairy, but variable; petiole 3–11 cm. long. Inflorescence showy, up to 30 cm. long; bracts much smaller than the leaves. Sepals ovate to lanceolate, up to 8 mm. long, glandular. Petals 1–2 cm. long, white, pale pink or lilac. Androphore 2–2.5 cm. long. Gynophore 1–2.5 cm. long. Capsules up to 12 cm. or more long, up to 8 mm. broad, glandular-pubescent. Seeds up to 1.8 mm. in diameter, dark brown, finely longitudinally striate with low or slightly cristate transverse ridges. Fig. 3, p. 17.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1–8; Z; P throughout most of Africa, Madagascar and the Seychelles; also tropical Asia and America
Altitude range
0–2400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 21 Apr. 1952, Gillett 12861 !;KENYA Naivasha District Kedong Valley, Mt. Margaret Estate, June 1940, Bally 903 !;KENYA Kilifi District 26 May 1945, Jeffery K206 !TANGANYIKA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, May 1927, Haarer 713 !;TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Milepa, Feb. 1949, Burnett 49/100 !;TANGANYIKA Lindi District Rondo Plateau, Mchinjiri, Jan. 1952, Semsei 637 !UGANDA W. Nile District Maracha Rest Camp, 7 Aug. 1953, Chancellor 129 !;UGANDA Karamoja District Kangole, 22 May 1940, A. S. Thomas 3457 !;UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo, 25 km. ESE. of Kampala, Dummer 582 !ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I. , Migombani, 13 Jan. 1930, Vaughan 1101 ! & Kizimkazi, 9 Jan. 1931, Vaughan 1803 !ZANZIBAR Pemba I. , Vitongoge, 14 Oct. 1929, Vaughan 820 !
Notes
The form usually grown in cultivation as a vegetable has very large capsules, up to 15 cm. long, 1.2 cm. wide, e.g. Bogdan 5608 !, Dyson-Hudson 473 !

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