Cleome paxii
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11 Jul 2018
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11 Jul 2018
| Family: | Capparaceae |
| Full name: | Cleome paxii (Schinz) Gilg & Benedict |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Wilde ertjie |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Cleome platycarpa Schinz fide Fl. S. Africa 13: 130 Polanisia paxii Schinz fide Fl. S. Africa 13: 131 |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Yellow 3-foliate linear leaves. Pale yellow flowers. Erect, annual herb 8-50 cm tall, often sparingly branched. Stems densely viscid-glandular; pubescence of dense, short stipitate glands. Leaves 3-foliolate, viscid-glandular, petiolate; petioles 2-20 mm long; leaflets linear to linear-lanceolate, 1-2.2 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm broad, blunt at the apex, cuneate at the base. Inflorescence a lax, few-flowered terminal raceme, not markedly elongating in fruit; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, sessile, occasionally unifoliolate, glandular; pedicels 1-1.5 cm long, glandular-puberulous. Sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, acuminate, glandular. Petals yellow, obovate, 4-8 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base. Stamens 10, all fertile, subequal, not exceeding the petals; anthers 1.5 mm long; Ovary 3 mm long, densely glandular-puberulous, on a very short gynophore; style 1 mm long; stigma capitate. Capsule erect or ascending, narrowly oblong, 2-4 cm long, about 4 mm broad; gynophore 0-1 mm long; style 1-2 mm long; valves remain attached to the replum in the lower half at dehiscence, chartaceous, glandular-puberulous, nerves anastomosing. Seeds brown, subglobose, about 1 mm in diameter, surface finely reticulate-foveolate. (from JSTOR Global plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
