Cleome tenella L.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Cleomaceae > Cleome

Characteristics

Annual herb, extremely slender and much branched, up to 7.5 dm. tall, glabrous, glaucescent.. Stems of young plants filiform.. Leaves 3-foliolate; lowest leaf with oblanceolate leaflets, up to 5 mm. long; other leaves withfiliform leaflets, 1–2 cm. long.. Inflorescence not clearly demarcated, the flowers single in the axils of mostly the upper leaves.. Sepals elliptic, 1–1.5 mm. long.. Petals 3–5(–7) mm. long, yellow or white with purplish veins.. Stamens 6.. Capsules sessile, 3–6.5 cm. long.. Seeds suborbicular in outline, 0.5–0.8 mm. in diameter, brown, minutely rugose.. Fig. 2/2, p. 10.
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Erect shrub, 1–2 ft. high, glabrous, glaucescent, with abundantly forked branching
Flowers white.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.53 - 0.68
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment stratification
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147340-1
WFO ID wfo-0000611630
COL ID VZCL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 789413
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Synonyms

Cleome grandidieri Cleome tenella Cleome tenella var. madagascariensis