''Cleome angustifolia'', known as golden cleome, yellow cleome or yellow mouse whiskers,
is an African species of plant in the
Cleomaceae
The Cleomaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, comprising about 300 species in 10 genera, or about 150 species in 17 genera.Cleomaceae, Zhang Mingli (张明理)1; Gordon C. Tucker2, Harvard.edu/ref> These genera ...
family. It is common along roadsides and in disturbed areas and is eaten as vegetable locally.
Swedish naturalist
Peter Forsskål
Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
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described ''C. angustifolia'' in 1775.
It is one of three species in genus ''
Cleome'' (the others being ''
C. gynandra'' and ''
C. oxalidea'') that independently acquired the
pathway of carbon fixation. A species close to ''C. angustifolia'', ''
Cleome paradoxa'', is – intermediate.
References
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angustifolia
Plants described in 1775