Cadaba glandulosa Forssk.

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Capparaceae > Cadaba

Characteristics

Small densely twiggy shrub, up to 1.3 m. tall, but often less.. Young twigs densely covered with glandular hairs and stalked glands, glabrescent.. Leaf-blade very broadly elliptic to suborbicular, 11–25 mm. long and nearly as broad, mucronate, covered with sessile and stalked glands; petiole 2–10 mm. long.. Inflorescence a few-flowered corymb; pedicels ± 1–2 cm. long.. Outer sepals 5–10 mm. long, with many glandular hairs.. Petals 0.. Androphore short, scarcely 2 mm. long; appendage petaloid, up to 17 mm. long, long-extended on the lower side, apically entire and evenly narrowed to the base, golden-yellow; stamens 5; filaments 12–15 mm. long; anthers ± 2 mm. long.. Gynophore recurving, up to 17 mm. long in fruit, densely stipitate-glandular.. Fruits ellipsoid, ± 7–15 mm. long, the ends rounded, densely stipitate-glandular.
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Fruit glandular-bristly, about 1/2 in. long.
A low much-branched shrub
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.3
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food material medicinal non-vertebrate poison poison
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Distribution

Cadaba glandulosa world distribution map, present in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:146202-1
WFO ID wfo-0000578363
COL ID P783
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Synonyms

Stroemia glandulosa Cadaba glandulosa Cadaba monopetala