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Sieruela rutidosperma (consumption weed; fringed spiderflower)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cleome rutidosperma commonly known as Fringed Spider Flower or Purple Cleome is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cleome of the family Cleomaceae, native to Tropical Africa. This species is an invasive weed throughout most lowland wet tropical areas of Asia and Australia. It is a very common weed of lawns.
View Wikipedia Record: Sieruela rutidosperma

Infraspecies

Sieruela rutidosperma var. burmannii
Sieruela rutidosperma var. rutidosperma

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [1]  Herb

Predators

Appias libythea (Common albatross butterfly)[3]
Ascia monuste (Great southern white)[3]
Ferrisia virgata (grey mealybug)[4]
Leptosia nina (Psyche butterfly)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0