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Species
Cleome rutidosperma DC. (1824)
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Cleome rutidosperma commonly known as Fringed Spider Flower or Purple Cleome is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cleome of the family Cleomaceae, native to Tropical Africa. This species is an invasive weed throughout most lowland wet tropical areas of Asia and Australia. It is a very common weed of lawns.[1]
Diagnostic[edit]
Fringed Spider Flower is an erect, branched, annual herb, growing up to 15-100 cm tall. The plant has angular stems and trifoliolate leaves on stalk. Each leaflet is somewhat diamond-shaped.The flowers are very small (about 15 mm across) with upward pointing purple petals and protruding stamens and pistil.
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Notes: Coastal areas
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Global Distribution
Pantropical
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Thiruvananthapuram
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"Maharashtra: Sindhudurg, Thane Kerala: Alpuzha, Kasaragod, Thiruvananthapuram"
"Annual, erect or decumbent herb, to 1 m high; stems weak, ribbed, subglabrous to eglandular-pilose, clothed with soft recurved caducous to 2 mm long prickles. Leaves 3-foliolate; lower ones long-petioled; upper ones short-petioled or sessile; leaflets subsessile, rhombate-elliptic, obovate or oblong-lanceolate, attenuate or cuneate and webbed at base, obscurely crenulate-serrulate and purple at margin, acute or acuminate at apex, 1-6 x 0.2-2 cm, glabrous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, softly setose; petioles at base to 4 cm long, gradually diminishing upwards to nearly absent; petiolules less than 1 mm long. Racemes lax, few-flowered, leaf bearing, not clearly demarcated, to 20 cm long. Flowers in axils of leaves below and in axils of foliaceous bracts above; pedicels filiform, 1-2 cm long, elongating to 3.5 cm in fruit, shortly glandular hairy. Sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5-4 x 0.3-0.8 mm, thinly clothed with short bristles. Petals oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, clawed at base, apiculate at apex, 8-12 x 1.5-2.5 mm, showy, pink, bluish violet, rarely white with pink streaks; claw 2-3.5 mm long. Stamens 6; filaments 6-9 mm long; anthers linear, ca 2 mm long, recurved after anthesis. Gynophore 1.5-2 mm long, elongating to 8 mm in fruit. Ovary linear, 7-12 mm long, slightly curved; stigma sessile, capitate. Capsules linear-cylindric, compressed, attenuate at both ends, ribbed, 4-7 cm x 2.5-4 mm; beak 1-4 mm long; valves glabrous, parallel nerved; seeds many, suborbicular to reniform with prominent concentric and transverse ridges and open cleft, 1.5-2 x ca 1.5 mm, orange-brown, drying black; elaiosome conspicuous, white or creamy."
Habit: Herb
In coastal areas
Flowering and fruiting: May-November