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Cleome hirta

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Name

Identification
Decastemon hirtus Klotzsch [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Cleome hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cleome pubella
  • Polanisia hirta
  • Cleome hirta
  • Cleome diandra
  • Cleome bechuanensis
  • Cleome glandulosissima
  • Cleome scheffleri
  • Cleome giorgii
  • Cleome hildebrandtii
  • Decastemon hirtus

Flora

Entry for CLEOME hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. [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 hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1868).
Information
Annual erect herb, sticky, with a foul smell; stem densely covered with subsessile and stalked glands. Leaves (3–)5–9-foliolate; leaflets linear to narrowly elliptic, 10–50 x 1–4 mm, glandular-hairy on both surfaces; petiole 0.5–6 cm long. Sepals 4–7 mm long. Petals pink or mauve, 8–20 mm long. Stamens (6–)10(–12). Capsules 60–125 x 2.5–3 mm, drooping at maturity, glandular; gynophore 4–15 mm long. Seeds c. 2 mm in diam., brown, with fine longitudinal striations and usually prominent transversal ridges.
Range
S1 Ethiopia, East Africa and southwards to Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Altitude range
175–230 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohammed 6771; O’Brien 240.

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