| Cleome scaposa DC., it is an annual or perennating herbs, up to 10-30 cm tall, slender, erect, sparsely branched from below, hairy with glandular or eglandular hairs. Leaves simple, sub orbicular to ovate-elliptic; blade 10-20 (-25) mm long, 5-20 mm broad, scabrous or papillose; petiole 5-20 mm long, ciliate hairy; upper leaves almost sub sessile. Inflorescence rather lax, racemose, elongated, increasing up to 20 cm in fruit, often bracteates below. Flowers 3-4 mm across, actinomorphic, white turning yellowish rarely pinkish. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in:————, Vern:————, Phytochoria: SA+SZ+IT, The native range of this species is Cape Verde to Central India. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147297-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/147297-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000611574, https://www.gbif.org/species/3873144, https://www.floraofqatar.com/cleome_scaposa.htm , https://www.jircas.go.jp/project/africa_dojo/FakaraPlants/Contents/Species_pages/Cleomsca.html , https://efloraofindia.com/2021/07/21/cleome-scaposa/ |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Tibesti area |
| Reported from Tibesti by Ozenda and Keith |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Ali, S.I. & Jafri, S.M.H. (1977) Flora of Libya, Capparaceae Vol. (12) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses , Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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