Cleome angulata, the elegant spider-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cleomaceae. It is an annual native to western India and to Java.[1] In western India it is found in the Konkan region of Maharashtra.[2]

Cleome angulata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleome
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Cleome elegans
(DC.) Schult. & Schult.f. (1829)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cleome schraderi Schult. & Schult.f. (1829), nom. superfl.
  • Corynandra angulata (DC.) R.Kr.Singh, Arigela & C.S.Reddy (2021)
  • Corynandra elegans Chandore, U.S.Yadav & S.R.Yadav (2016)
  • Corynandra pulchella Schrad. ex Spreng. (1827)
  • Polanisia angulata DC. (1824)
  • Polanisia heterophylla Wall. (1832), not validly publ.
  • Polanisia schraderi DC. (1826), nom. superfl.

References

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  1. ^ a b Cleome angulata (DC.) Schult. & Schult.f. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  2. ^ A new elegant species of Corynandra (Cleomaceae) from Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. Arun Nivrutti Chandore, Usha Shrirang Yadav and Shrirang Ramchandra Yadav, Phytotaxa, Vol 260, No 1, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.260.1.10
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