Virtual Herbanium

Plant Detail

	Plant Detail Botanical Name Cleome viscosa - L. Family Cleomaceae Common Name Hulhul, Tikweed, Asian spider flower Habit Herb Synonym Cleome acutifolia Elmer Habitat Wasteland Color Of Flower yellow Key Characters Petals -4, yellow.
Systematic Position Division : Dicotyledonae Class : Polypetalae Series : Thalamiflorae Order : Parietales
Plant Description Annual, erect herbs, 30-80 cm tall, softly, pubescent, hairs simple and glandular; leaves with long petioles, digitately 3-5 foliolate, leaflets almost equaling the petiole, sessile or subsessile, ovate-obovate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, flowers 1 cm across, long pedicelled, solitary axillary or in terminal lax racemes; sepals 4, ovate, acute; petals 4, yellow, reflexed, oblong or obovate; stamens 12-20; ovary pubescent, oblong, style glabrous, stigma capitate; capsules 4-8 cm, cylindric, striate, viscid, beaked; seeds numerous, small dark-brown, granular.
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