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Cleome hirta - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome hirta - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome hirta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania; 5/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 2015
Date of entry: 27.09.2012
Last update: 11.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2611)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2511)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2123)

      Order: Brassicales (19)

        Family: Cleomaceae (9)(family description)

          Genus: Cleome (8)

            Epithet: hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. (10)

hirta => with short or fairly stiff hairs, hairy but shorter than hirsute

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: pink, yellow

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