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Polanisia orthocarpa

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Identification
Isotype of Polanisia orthocarpa Hochst. ex Webb [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cleome viscosa L. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Cleome viscosa
  • Polanisia orthocarpa

Flora

Entry for CLEOME viscosa L. [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 viscosa L. [family CAPPARACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 672 (1753); F.T.A. 1: 80 (1868); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 164 (1915); F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. A.-E. Sudan 1: 46 (1950); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 87 (1954). Type: Ceylon, Herb. Hermann 241 (BM–SL, lecto. !)
Polanisia viscosa (L.) DC. [family CAPPARACEAE], Prodr. 1: 242 (1824); Gilg in P.O.A. C: 184 (1895)
Polanisia orthocarpa Webb [family CAPPARACEAE], Fragm. Fl. Aethiop.: 23 (1854). Type: Sudan Republic, Kordofan, Arashkol, Kotschy 94 (K, iso. !)
Information
Annual herb, branched above, erect, up to 1 m. tall, foul smelling. Stem angular, rather densely glandular-hairy. Leaves petiolate, 3–5-foliolate; leaflets obovate, up to 4 cm. long, obtuse or rounded, sometimes retuse, at the apex, cuneate at the base; petiole up to 14 mm. long. Inflorescence up to 30 cm. long, with few corymbose ephemeral flowers at the top; rhachis markedly elongating in fruit; bracts foliaceous, scarcely smaller than the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, 4–6 mm. long, glandular-puberulous. Petals 6–9 mm. long, yellow. Stamens 10–20. Gynophore absent. Capsules 3.5–7.5 cm. long, glandular-hairy. Seeds ±1.4 mm. in diameter, dark brown with fine longitudinal striations and conspicuous transverse ridges.
Range
DISTR. Z; northern tropical Africa from Cape Verde I. to the Sudan Republic; also from Arabia and Socotra to tropical Australia; adventive in the New World. The above is the only record from East Africa, but it is some 65 km. from the Port of Zanzibar and appears to be behaving as a native plant
Altitude range
near sea-level
Distribution
ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I. , Makonduchi, 24 Mar. 1961, Faulkner 2787 !

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