Cleome angustifolia

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endangered perennial medicinal 2024 1977

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Home Plants magnoliophyta magnoliopsida brassicales cleomaceae cleome Cleome angustifolia

Forssk.

1775

yellow mouse whiskers

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Cleome angustifolia, known as golden cleome, yellow cleome or yellow mouse whiskers, is an African species of plant in the Cleomaceae family. It is common along roadsides and in disturbed areas and is eaten as vegetable locally. Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål described C. angustifolia in 1775. It is one of three species in genus Cleome (the others being C. gynandra and C. oxalidea) that independently acquired the C4 pathway of carbon fixation. A species close to C. angustifolia, Cleome paradoxa, is C3–C4 intermediate....read more on Wikipedia.