Biology:Cleome angustifolia

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cleome angustifolia
Yellow Mouse Whiskers (Cleome angustifolia) (6046422092).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleome
Species:
C. angustifolia
Binomial name
Cleome angustifolia
Synonyms[2]
  • Cleome didynarna Hochst. ex Oliv.
  • Cleome filifolia Vahl [Illegitimate]
  • Cleome hochstetteri (Eichler) Cufod.
  • Coalisia angustifolia (Forssk.) Raf.
  • Dianthera hochstetteri Eichler

Cleome angustifolia, known as golden cleome, yellow cleome or yellow mouse whiskers,[3] 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.[3] Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål described C. angustifolia in 1775.[1][4] 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.[5]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15516428 entry