Cleome monophylla L.

 
  • Family : CAPPARACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Capparaceae
  • Species : Cleome monophylla
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cleome monophylla L.
  • Common name : Spindle Pod
  • Vernacular name : Menasinakase (Kan.)
  • Collection Nos : KFP 12305, KFP 10181
  • Key identification features : An erect annual herb with glandular hairs. Leaves are simple, ovate to lanceolate. Flowers are in leafy racemes, purple, with clawed petals. Fruit is a siliqua on a short gynophore.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Native : Zimbabwe.
  • Comments : Common weed of open places in dry areas
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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