Cleome angustifolia petersiana
| Family: | Capparaceae |
| Full name: | Cleome angustifolia subsp. petersiana (Klotzsch) Kers |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Geel-cleome, Peultjiesbos, Wilde-ertjie |
| English common name(s): | Yellow mouse-whiskers, Yellow cleome, Wild cleome, Pretty lady, Tusked spindlepod |
| Synonym(s): | Cleome petersiana (Klotzsch) Briq. (1914) Dianthera petersiana Klotzsch (1868) Polanisia petersiana (Klotzsch) Pax (1894) Cleome diandra auct. (*) Cleome elegantissima Chiov. (1924) (*) Cleome diandra var. delagoensis Kuntze Polanisia dianthera var. delagoensis (Kuntze) Schinz & Junod (1824) |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Yellow flowers with maroon at base. Yellow cleome with purple base to petals, unequal stamens (two forming prominent "tusks"), pods held horizontally, bracts trifoliate. Yellow flowers with violet markings near base, only two fertile stamens significantly longer and larger than the others, curving upwards. The floral bracts divided into three leaflets distinguishes this subsp. from subsp. diandra (bracts undivided or absent). (from za.ispot.org.uk website / Lize von Staden) Erect glaucous herb 30-120 cm tall, simple to branched. Stems striate, pallid, glabrous to conspicuously aculeolate- glandular, sometimes with a fusiform swelling in the main stem. Leaves 3-9(-13)-foliolate, petiolate; petioles up to 6 cm long, glabrous; leaflets shortly petiolulate, glabrous, linear-filiform, 1-4(-5) cm long, 0.4-1 (-2) mm broad, becoming progressively smaller towards the inflorescence and grading into the bracts. Inflorescence a lax terminal raceme; bracts 1-3-foliolate, sessile or sub-sessile; pedicels slender, 1-2.5 cm long, glabrous or sparingly glandular, elongating in fruit to 3 cm long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 5-10 mm long, 2-4 mm broad, glabrous to glandular, apex rounded or acuminate. Petals yellow with, usually, a violet basal area, narrowed to the base to a short claw up to 4 mm long; the two lateral the larger, broadly obovate to obovate-oblanceolate, 0.9-2.4 cm long, 0.5-1.2 cm broad, the two median oblanceolate, 0.6-2.1 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, rounded at the apex. Stamens 8-18; fertile stamens 2 or 4 with filaments up to 4 cm long, incurved; anthers about 4 mm long; staminodes 6-12 (-16), 3-10 mm long, often clavate at the apex, with minute sterile anthers. Ovary linear, glabrous, 4 mm long; gynophore about 4 mm long; style 1 mm long; stigma capitate, minutely papillose. Capsule linear, 4-10 cm long, 3-4 mm broad, straight or slightly curved, spreading or deflexed; gynophore (0.5-)1-1.7 cm long, glabrous; style 5-10 mm long; valves glabrous or sparingly glandular, tapering to both ends, thin-textured, with about 9 anastomosing nerves on each side. Seeds brown, about 1.5 mm in diameter, surface reticulate-foveolate, subglabrous (when immature) or patently pubescent with bristle-like hairs of different lengths. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 13 Apr 2017 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | EOS 7D |
| Lens aperture: | f/9.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/800 s |
| ISO speed: | 640 |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
