3082.000 Cleome L.

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

Mozambique: 8 taxa.

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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	Description, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Cleome
Flora of Burundi: Cleome
Flora of Caprivi: Cleome
Flora of Malawi: Cleome
Flora of Zambia: Cleome
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cleome
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cleome

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cleome
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cleome
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