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3082.000 Cleome
Description of the genus
Herbs (in ours), sometimes shrubby below, often glandular. Leaves digitately 3-9-foliolate or rarely simple (monophylla). Flowers zygomorphic, in terminal racemes. Sepals 4, often glandular. Petals 4. Stamens 2-many, all fertile or some sterile. Androgynophore 0 or very short (except in C. gynandra where it is longer than the corolla). Gynophore 0 or short. Fruit a 2-valved, dehiscent capsule, often borne on an elongated gynophore. Worldwide: 150 species from tropical and warm areas |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angustifolia Forssk. subsp. diandra (Burch.) Kers | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| bororensis (Klotzsch) Oliv.[End][LR-lc] | Z,M | |
| gynandra L. | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. | N,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| macrophylla (Klotzsch) Briq. var. macrophylla | Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| macrophylla (Klotzsch) Briq. var. maculatiflora (Merxm.) Wild | M | |
| monophylla L. | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| stricta (Klotzsch) R.A. Graham | N,MS,GI,M |
Other sources of information about Cleome:
Flora of Zimbabwe: CleomeePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Cleome
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Cleome
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Cleome
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cleome
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Cleome
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