Cleome viscosa L.

English: Asian Spiderflower

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Brassicales (19)

        Family: Cleomaceae (9)(family description)

          Genus: Cleome (8)

            Epithet: viscosa L. (3)

Synonym: Arivela viscosa (L.) Raf.

viscosa => sticky, clammy, exuding a sticky secretion

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

Cleome viscosa is an erect annual herb, up to 60(120) cm high, with (many) our without branches. The entire plant is densely glandular-pubescent, sticky and of unpleasant smell.

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [224] Cleome viscosa - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [505] Cleome viscosa - Plants For A Future database

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [13] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1985): Wichtige Unkrautarten der Tropen und Subtropen. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.