Cleome viscosa

Cleome viscosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Brassicales
Family:Cleomaceae
Genus:Cleome
Species: C. viscosa
Binomial name
Cleome viscosa
Synonyms[1]
  • Arivela viscosa (L.) Raf.
  • Cleome acutifolia Elmer
  • Cleome icosandra L.
  • Polanisia icosandra (L.) Wight & Arn.
  • Polanisia microphylla Eichler
  • Polanisia viscosa (L.) Blume
  • Sinapistrum viscosum (L.) Moench

Cleome viscosa, the Asian spiderflower[2] or tick weed[3] is an annual herb, up to a meter high. It belongs to family Capparidaceae. It is commonly found in rainy season.

The crushed leaves have been investigated as a treatment on stored seeds of cowpea, to prevent weevil infestation.[4]

The leaves are use as external application to wounds and ulcers. The seed are anrhelmintic and carminative Juice of leaves is used as remedy against discharge of pus from the ear.

In northern India, the seeds(called Jakhya) are used as a culinary herb, mainly for tempering.

Description

Plants (10–)30–100(–160) cm. Stems viscid. Leaves: petiole 1.5–4.5(–8) cm, glandular-hirsute; leaflet blade ovate to oblanceolate-elliptic, (0.6–)2–6 × 0.5–3.5 cm, margins entire and glandular-ciliate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glandular-hirsute. Racemes 5–10 cm (10–15 cm in fruit); bracts (often deciduous), trifoliate, 10–25 mm, glandular-hirsute. Pedicels 6–30 mm, glandular-hirsute. Flowers: sepals green, lanceolate, 5–10 × 0.8–1.2 mm, glandular-hirsute; petals arranged in adaxial semicircle before anthesis, radially arranged at anthesis, bright yellow, sometimes purple basally, oblong to ovate, 7–14 × 3–4 mm; stamens dimorphic, 4–10 adaxial ones much shorter with swelling proximal to anthers, green, 5–9 mm; anthers 1.4–3 mm; ovary 6–10 mm, densely glandular; style 1–1.2 mm. Capsules dehiscing only partway from apex to base, 30–100 × 2–4 mm, glandular-hirsute. Seeds light brown, 1.2–1.8 × 1–1.2 mm, finely ridged transversely. 2n = 20.

Phenology

June–August (summer)

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 17 May 2016
  2. ↑ "Cleome viscosa". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Cleome viscosa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. ↑ Dabire, C.L.B.; Niango Ba, M.; Sanon, A. (2008), "Effects of crushed fresh Cleome viscosa L. (Capparaceae) plants on the cowpea storage pest, Callosobruchus maculatus Fab. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)", International Journal of Pest Management, 54 (4): 319–326, doi:10.1080/09670870802266953


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