Cleome scaposa DC.

General Appearance

Cleome scaposa DC., it is a perennating herb, sometimes with annual forms, up to 10-.10 cm tall, slender, erect, sparsely branched from below. Leaves sub-orbicular to ovate-elliptic, 10-25 x 5-20 mm, petiolate, scabrous or papillose. Flowers 3-4 mm across, white or pinkish, turning yellowish; pedicels up to 10 mm long in fruit filiform, spreading. Stamens 6, about as long as the petals, not exserted. Capsules linear, 20-35 mm long, 1 mm broad, usually spreading and accurately curved, glabrous to slightly glandular; seeds many, c. 0.6 mm in diameter, glabrous with minutely granulate surface, brown-blackish.

Phytochoria

SA+SZ+IT. The native range of this species is Cape Verde to Central India.

Distribution in Libya

Tibesti area: Reported from Tibesti by Ozenda and Keith

Notes

Wild in Libya. I have not yet found a recent record of this species in Libya. The
species grow mostly on stony hillocks but also reaches in sands around the hillocks, where it grows like annuals; those on hillocks or on stony grounds perennate giving
new branches from its woody base during favorable seasons.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:147297-1

Link of images: https://www.floraofqatar.com/cleome_scaposa.htm, https://atlas-sahara.org/Cleomaceae/Gilgella%20scaposa/Gilgella%20scaposa.html