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Cleome elegantissima [family CAPPARACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cleome elegantissima [family CAPPARACEAE]
Common names
C. hirta sensu Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 162, 453 (1915), partly. C. confusa Dinter in Fedde, Repert. 15 : 433 (1919). Syntypes : several, including Dinter 20. C. welwitschii Exell in J. Bot. Lond. 72 : 279 (1934); Exell & Mendonca, C.F.A. 1,1 : 57 (1937). Type : Angola, Benguella, Welwitsch 954 (BM, holo.!; B!;C0I!). Polanisia hirta sensu Pax in Bot. Jahrb. 10 : 14 (1898), partly, as to specimens cited.
Information
Erect, annual herb, 15-50 cm tall, branched, somewhat woody at the base. Stems striate, subglabrous to viscid glandular-hirsute. Leaves aromatic, (3-) 5-7 (-9)-folio-late, petiolate, decreasing in size upwards and passing gradually into the sessile bracts; petioles up to 5 cm long, glandular hispid; leaflets linear-oblong to linear oblanceolate, 0-8-3 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, subacute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, glandular-puberulous, especially on the marÂgins and the nerves below. Inflorescence a terminal raceme elongating considerably in fruit; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, shortly petiolate to subsessile, 3-5-foliolate and with more rounded leaflets; pedicels slender, 7-17 mm long, glandular-puberulous. Sepals linear, 5-6 mm long, subulate, glanÂdular-pubescent. Petals obovate-oblanceolate, 1-1-1-9 cm long, 3-6 mm broad, mauve to purple with a median yellow band outlined in deeper purple, rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base to a claw about one third the length of the petal. Stamens 10—11(—12), all fertile, mauve, the 2-4 lower longer and stouter, eventually exceeding the petals and with anthers 2-5 mm long, the remainder subequal to the petals with anthers 1 ? 5-2 mm long. Ovary glandular-puberulous, 1 mm long, on a gynophore 2 mm long; style about 2 mm long; stigma subcapitate. Capsule narrowly linear, 5-8 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, straight, spreading; gynophore (8-)l 1-16(-21) mm long; valves glandular-pubescent with about 7 longitudinal nerves on each valve. Seeds brown, broadly comma-shaped, someÂwhat flattened, 1-5-2 mm in diameter, obscurely wrinkled. Fig. 16 : 6.
Habitat
Related to C. hirta but is smaller in stature with stems less markedly pubescent to subglabrous and filaments glabrous, while the seeds are somewhat comma-shaped with an obscurely wrinkled surface in contrast to the larger, circular seeds of C. hirta with conspicuously rugose-tuberculate transverse ridges. It differs from C. oxyphylla in its distinctly clawed petals, while the seeds of C. oxyphylla are more or less circular with distinct, but not tuberculate, transverse ridges.
Use
8. Cleome elegantissima Briq. in Ann. Cons. Jard. Bot. Geneve 17 : 361 (1914); Roessler in F.S.W.A. 47 : 9 (1966). Type : S.W. Africa, Okahandja, Dinter 20 (G, holo.!; B!;BM!;GRA!;K!; SAM!).
Range
Recorded from central and northern South West Africa, usually among granite outcrops or on sandy fiats and extends into Angola.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cleome elegantissima [family CAPPARACEAE]
Common names
C. hirta sensu Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 162, 453 (1915), partly. C. confusa Dinter in Fedde, Repert. 15 : 433 (1919). Syntypes : several, including Dinter 20. C. welwitschii Exell in J. Bot. Lond. 72 : 279 (1934); Exell & Mendonca, C.F.A. 1,1 : 57 (1937). Type : Angola, Benguella, Welwitsch 954 (BM, holo.!; B!;C0I!). Polanisia hirta sensu Pax in Bot. Jahrb. 10 : 14 (1898), partly, as to specimens cited.
Information
Erect, annual herb, 15-50 cm tall, branched, somewhat woody at the base. Stems striate, subglabrous to viscid glandular-hirsute. Leaves aromatic, (3-) 5-7 (-9)-folio-late, petiolate, decreasing in size upwards and passing gradually into the sessile bracts; petioles up to 5 cm long, glandular hispid; leaflets linear-oblong to linear oblanceolate, 0-8-3 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, subacute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, glandular-puberulous, especially on the marÂgins and the nerves below. Inflorescence a terminal raceme elongating considerably in fruit; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, shortly petiolate to subsessile, 3-5-foliolate and with more rounded leaflets; pedicels slender, 7-17 mm long, glandular-puberulous. Sepals linear, 5-6 mm long, subulate, glanÂdular-pubescent. Petals obovate-oblanceolate, 1-1-1-9 cm long, 3-6 mm broad, mauve to purple with a median yellow band outlined in deeper purple, rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base to a claw about one third the length of the petal. Stamens 10—11(—12), all fertile, mauve, the 2-4 lower longer and stouter, eventually exceeding the petals and with anthers 2-5 mm long, the remainder subequal to the petals with anthers 1 ? 5-2 mm long. Ovary glandular-puberulous, 1 mm long, on a gynophore 2 mm long; style about 2 mm long; stigma subcapitate. Capsule narrowly linear, 5-8 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, straight, spreading; gynophore (8-)l 1-16(-21) mm long; valves glandular-pubescent with about 7 longitudinal nerves on each valve. Seeds brown, broadly comma-shaped, someÂwhat flattened, 1-5-2 mm in diameter, obscurely wrinkled. Fig. 16 : 6.
Habitat
Related to C. hirta but is smaller in stature with stems less markedly pubescent to subglabrous and filaments glabrous, while the seeds are somewhat comma-shaped with an obscurely wrinkled surface in contrast to the larger, circular seeds of C. hirta with conspicuously rugose-tuberculate transverse ridges. It differs from C. oxyphylla in its distinctly clawed petals, while the seeds of C. oxyphylla are more or less circular with distinct, but not tuberculate, transverse ridges.
Use
8. Cleome elegantissima Briq. in Ann. Cons. Jard. Bot. Geneve 17 : 361 (1914); Roessler in F.S.W.A. 47 : 9 (1966). Type : S.W. Africa, Okahandja, Dinter 20 (G, holo.!; B!;BM!;GRA!;K!; SAM!).
Range
Recorded from central and northern South West Africa, usually among granite outcrops or on sandy fiats and extends into Angola.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cleome elegantissima [family CAPPARACEAE]
Common names
C. hirta sensu Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 162, 453 (1915), partly. C. confusa Dinter in Fedde, Repert. 15 : 433 (1919). Syntypes : several, including Dinter 20. C. welwitschii Exell in J. Bot. Lond. 72 : 279 (1934); Exell & Mendonca, C.F.A. 1,1 : 57 (1937). Type : Angola, Benguella, Welwitsch 954 (BM, holo.!; B!;C0I!). Polanisia hirta sensu Pax in Bot. Jahrb. 10 : 14 (1898), partly, as to specimens cited.
Information
Erect, annual herb, 15-50 cm tall, branched, somewhat woody at the base. Stems striate, subglabrous to viscid glandular-hirsute. Leaves aromatic, (3-) 5-7 (-9)-folio-late, petiolate, decreasing in size upwards and passing gradually into the sessile bracts; petioles up to 5 cm long, glandular hispid; leaflets linear-oblong to linear oblanceolate, 0-8-3 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, subacute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, glandular-puberulous, especially on the marÂgins and the nerves below. Inflorescence a terminal raceme elongating considerably in fruit; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, shortly petiolate to subsessile, 3-5-foliolate and with more rounded leaflets; pedicels slender, 7-17 mm long, glandular-puberulous. Sepals linear, 5-6 mm long, subulate, glanÂdular-pubescent. Petals obovate-oblanceolate, 1-1-1-9 cm long, 3-6 mm broad, mauve to purple with a median yellow band outlined in deeper purple, rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base to a claw about one third the length of the petal. Stamens 10—11(—12), all fertile, mauve, the 2-4 lower longer and stouter, eventually exceeding the petals and with anthers 2-5 mm long, the remainder subequal to the petals with anthers 1 ? 5-2 mm long. Ovary glandular-puberulous, 1 mm long, on a gynophore 2 mm long; style about 2 mm long; stigma subcapitate. Capsule narrowly linear, 5-8 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, straight, spreading; gynophore (8-)l 1-16(-21) mm long; valves glandular-pubescent with about 7 longitudinal nerves on each valve. Seeds brown, broadly comma-shaped, someÂwhat flattened, 1-5-2 mm in diameter, obscurely wrinkled. Fig. 16 : 6.
Habitat
Related to C. hirta but is smaller in stature with stems less markedly pubescent to subglabrous and filaments glabrous, while the seeds are somewhat comma-shaped with an obscurely wrinkled surface in contrast to the larger, circular seeds of C. hirta with conspicuously rugose-tuberculate transverse ridges. It differs from C. oxyphylla in its distinctly clawed petals, while the seeds of C. oxyphylla are more or less circular with distinct, but not tuberculate, transverse ridges.
Use
8. Cleome elegantissima Briq. in Ann. Cons. Jard. Bot. Geneve 17 : 361 (1914); Roessler in F.S.W.A. 47 : 9 (1966). Type : S.W. Africa, Okahandja, Dinter 20 (G, holo.!; B!;BM!;GRA!;K!; SAM!).
Range
Recorded from central and northern South West Africa, usually among granite outcrops or on sandy fiats and extends into Angola.
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