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Cleome viscosa L.
Synonym
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Cleome viscosa var. deglabrata
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Family
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Capparaceae
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Local name
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English- Wild mustard
Malayalam-Naikadugu
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March-July
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Distribution
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Pantropical
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Weed among cultivated plants, wastelands, roadsides
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Uses
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In areas where it occurs in abundance it can be used as a cover plant and as a
green manure.
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Key botanical characters :
Erect profusely branched annual herbs, viscous with stalked glandular hairs.
Leaves alternate, 3-5(-7)-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, 0.6-3.5 x 0.3-2 cm,.
Flowers 1-1.5 cm across; pedicels to 1 cm long, elongate during fruiting.
Sepals 4, 4-8 x 2-3 mm, lanceolate, apex acute, glandular hairy without.
Petals 4, yellow, 6-12 x 3-5 mm, obovate to oblong-spathulate, apex rounded.
Stamens 12-18; filaments 6-8 mm long, broadened at tip; anthers linear. Ovary
sessile, 5-7 mm long, oblong-cylindric, glandular-hairy; stigma cpitate.
Capsules 5-6.5 x 0.3-0.5 cm, linear-oblong, terete, striate, densely
glandular hairy; seeds many, 1-1.5 mm across, reniform, transversely ridged,
reddish-brown.
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