Cleome suffruticosa
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Habit
05 Mar 2009
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Leaves
05 Mar 2009
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Flower
18 Mar 2007
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Dry stem
18 Mar 2007
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Flower
21 Mar 2008
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Flowers and seed pods
23 Mar 2008
| Family: | Capparaceae |
| Full name: | Cleome suffruticosa Schinz |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Shrubby spiderplant, Spider plant, Spiderplant, Shrubby cleome |
| Synonym(s): | Polanisia suffruticosa (Schinz) Pax fide Fl. S. Africa 13: 133 |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Yellow flowers (similar to C. foliosa). Erect, rigid annual herb 20-60 cm tall, often freely branched from the base. Stems striate, viscid glandular-pubescent; pubescence of dense, short stipitate glands. Leaves 5(-7)-foliolate, petiolate; petioles up to 4 cm long, glandular-pubescent; leaflets lanceolate to obovate-oblanceolate, 1-4 cm long, 2-5-10 mm broad, becoming progressively smaller towards the inflorescence and grading into the bracts, obtuse to acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, glandular-pubescent especially on the margins and nerves below. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, stout, stiffly erect, elongating in fruit; bracts 3-foliolate, resembling the leaves but smaller, shortly petiolate to almost sessile, glandular-pubescent; pedicels 1-2 cm long. Sepals ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 4-7 mm long, acute to acuminate, glandular-puberulous outside. Petals yellow, often reflexed, obovate, 1-2-2 cm long, 5-12 mm broad, narrowed to a distinct claw at the base. Stamens 12-24, all fertile, unequal, with 4-5(-7) longer and stouter than the rest, equalling the pe ... (from JSTOR website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
