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Cleome monophylla

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Name

Identification
Cleome monophylla L. [family CAPPARACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cleome monophylla
Common name
  • ngélu (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • rimin samara (Grove) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (East)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • a’a kai ka fito = out you come (JMD; RES) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CLEOME monophylla L. [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 monophylla L. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1753).
Information
Annual herb; stem pubescent with short glandular hairs mixed with longer eglandular hairs. Leaves simple; blade 1.5–7 x 0.3–1.8 cm, linear-lanceolate to oblong or ovate, pubescent on both surfaces; petiole up to 2.5 cm. Sepals 3–5 mm long. Petals pink or mauve, 5–9 mm long, unequal. Stamens 5 or 6. Capsules 25–90 x 2–3 mm, glandular-puberulous, spreading or drooping, subsessile or borne on a gynophore up to 4 mm long. Seeds up to 1.8 mm in diam., brown, with fine longitudinal striations and low transverse ridges.
Range
S1 widespread in Africa
Altitude range
175–230 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6773; O’Brien 78, 244.
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
India
Sri Lanka
Notes
A statement in Fl. Trop. E. Afr., Capparidaceae : 5 (1964) that this species occurs in N Somalia has not been verified.

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