Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Sarita Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Basan
About Cleome viscosa Plant :
Habit : An annual erect herb having tap root system.
Stem : Erect, well branched, herbaceous, green, solid and pubescent.
Leaves : Ramal and cauline, alternate, exstipulate, palmately compound, tri- to pentafoliate, petiolate but pinnae are sessile, ovate-lanceolate, hiry, acute, multicostate reticulate venation.
Inflorescence : Racemose raceme.
Flowers :
Bracteate, pedicellate, complete, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, tetramerous, hypogynous, generally yellow coloured with very long pedicel.
Calyx composed of 4 sepals, polysepalous, valvate, sepals arranged in two whorls of two each.
Corolla composed of 4 petals, polypetalous, clawed, imbricate, yellow coloured.
Androecium made up of many stamens (12-24), polyandrous, dithecous, basifixed, introrse, filament long and anther lobes curved.
Gynoecium bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, single locule with many ovules, parietal placentation, gynophore is present but very short, style short, stigma sticky and capitate.
