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 Zambia: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| gynandra L. | B,N,S | Description, Image |
| hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| macrophylla (Klotzsch) Briq. [LR-lc] | S | Description, Image |
| monophylla L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| rubella Burch. | B | Description, Image |
| rutidosperma DC. var. rutidosperma | N,W | Description, Image |
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Flora of Rwanda: Cleome
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Cleome
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cleome
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CleomeBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cleome
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