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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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Species
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CLEOME SPINOSA Jacq.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. PI. Carib. 26. 1760.
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Synonym
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Cleome heptaphylla L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 937. 1763. Cleome pungens Willd. Hort. Berol. t. I8. 1803. Cieome horrida Mart. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. 7:32. 1829. Cleome spinosa var. horrida (Mart.) Fawc. & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 3:226. 1914.
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Description
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Relatively stout herbs as much as 1.5 m. tall; stems conspicuously glandular- pubescent, armed with prominent paired thorns at the nodes; leaves alternate, petiolate, palmately compound, the petioles 2-8 cm. long, glandular-pubescent and usually armed with rather stout, yellow thorns, the leaflets 5-7, elliptic-oblanceo- late, acute, narrowly cuneate, 2-10 cm. long, conspicuously pubescent and the midribs occasionally aculeolate beneath; inflorescence a many-flowered, corymbose raceme, the peduncle densely glandular-pubescent, greatly elongating in fruit, the bracts foliaceous, sessile and more or less cordate, 0.1-3.0 cm. long, the pedicels about 2 cm. long, glandular-puberulent; sepals 4, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, about 5-8 mm. long, densely glandular-puberulent; petals obovate-spatulate, 1-2 cm. long, unguiculate, the claw about I/4 as long as the blade, bright pink, occasionally white; stamens 6, the filaments attached somewhat above the base of the andro- gynophore, somewhat longer than the petals, the anthers about 8 mm. long; disc very inconspicuous, not obvious in fruit; ovary about 3 mm. long, glabrous, the stigma sessile, the gynophore about 2 cm. long, somewhat accrescent in fruit; silique narrowly fusiform, 5-12 cm. long, about 2-4 mm. thick, continuous or slightly moniliform, glabrous or somewhat glandular-puberulent; seeds cochleate- reniform, about 2 mm. long, light buff, smooth or minutely tuberculate; fruiting gynophores 2-3 cm. long, about equaling the pedicels or slightly longer, somewhat deflexed.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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Widely distributed in tropical America and frequently cultivated as an orna- mental annual in temperate latitudes.
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Specimen
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COLON: vicinity of Col6n, Cowell 95.
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Note
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It is hard to tell whether the specimen cited is indigenous or an escape from cultivation.
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