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Family : Capparaceae |
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Family (APGIII) : CLEOMACEAE |
Protologue : Sp. Pl. 2: ? (1753) |
| Information on the genus : Cleome |
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Status
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| Status for NA : | accepted (weed) |
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq. (1914) |
| Pedicellaria gynandra (L.) Chiov. |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Cleome pentaphylla L. |
| =Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank |
| =Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. (1824) |
| =Cleome heterotricha Burch. (1822) |
| =Gynandropsis heterotricha (Burch.) DC. (1824) |
| =Gynandropsis triphylla (L.) DC. |
| =Cleome triphylla L. |
| =Cleome candelabrum Sims |
| =Cleome acuta Schumach. & Thonn. |
| =Cleome denticulata (DC.) Schult. f. |
| =Gynandropsis denticulata DC. |
| =Cleome eckloniana Schrad. |
| =Gynandropsis pentaphylla var. sativa A. Chev. |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Erect, annual herb, 20-120 cm. |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Wet places, sometimes weedy, open dune vegetation; 10-540 (-1850) m alt. (Somalia) ? Disturbed or cultivated ground, roadsides, perhaps wild on rocky shallow soil in deciduous bushland; 0-2400 m alt. (E Africa). |
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Common. S. Africa; Madagascar; most of the tropics and subtropics. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
annual-Herb- Ht 0.25 - 0.6 m.in states: BOT, NAM, FS, GA, KN, LP, MP, NC, NW |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Fl. S. Africa 13: 138-139 (1970).
- Food plants of Zimbabwe : 41 (1986).
Bibliography for North Africa :
- OZENDA, P. (1983). Flore du Sahara. (ed. 2). Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS.), Paris, 622p. [p.652]
- GREUTER, W., H. M. BURDET & G. LONG (ed.) (1984). MED-CHECKLIST. [vol. 1] Conservatoire & Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève. [p.156]
- BARRY J. P. & J. C. CELLES (1991). Flore de Mauritanie. Institut supérieur scientifique de Nouakchott - Université de Nice. [p.119]
- LEBRUN, J. P. (1998). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires de la Mauritanie et du Sahara occidental. Boissiera 55: [38]
- Fl. Egypt (Boulos) 1: 181 (1999).
- Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 30: 29-35 (2011)
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The Euro-Mediterranean Plant Base |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Namibia photo from Kyffhauser |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
| see under Tropicos |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under Herbarium, North Africa MPU |
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| Record n°12757 modified 2007-04-16 |
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