• Family : CAPPARACEAE
  (Caper Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARIL FAMILY (करील फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CLEOMACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cleome angustifolia Forssk.
• Common name : Yellow Mouse-whiskers
• Vernacular name : Nailkadugu (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry sandy places
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Key identification features : Annual herb
• Flower, Fruit : May-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Gani RF (Kurnool district), Nellore district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tirunelveli district, Alagar Hills (Madurai district)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Arabia, Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cleome angustifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description