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Cleome angustifolia

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Species of flowering plant

Cleome angustifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleome
Species: C. angustifolia
Binomial name
Cleome angustifolia
Forssk.
Synonyms
  • Cleome didynarna Hochst. ex Oliv.
  • Cleome filifolia Vahl
  • Cleome hochstetteri (Eichler) Cufod.
  • Coalisia angustifolia (Forssk.) Raf.
  • Dianthera hochstetteri Eichler

Cleome angustifolia, known as golden cleome, yellow cleome or yellow mouse whiskers, is an African species of plant in the Cleomaceae family. It is common along roadsides and in disturbed areas and is eaten as vegetable locally. Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål described C. angustifolia in 1775. It is one of three species in genus Cleome (the others being C. gynandra and C. oxalidea) that independently acquired the C4 pathway of carbon fixation. A species close to C. angustifolia, Cleome paradoxa, is C3–C4 intermediate.

References

  1. ^ Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica (in Latin). Hauniæ (Copenhagen): ex officina Mölleri. 1775. p. 120. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.41.
  2. "Cleome angustifolia Forssk. – The Plant List". 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Siyabona Africa – Golden Cleome". 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  4. "Tropicos – Cleome angustifolia Forssk". 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  5. Feodorova, T.A.; Voznesenskaya, E.V.; Edwards, G.E.; Roalson, E.H. (2010). "Biogeographic patterns of diversification and the origins of C4 in Cleome (Cleomaceae)" (PDF). Systematic Botany. 35 (4): 811–826. doi:10.1600/036364410X539880. ISSN 0363-6445. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
Taxon identifiers
Cleome angustifolia
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