Trees & Plants

Yellow mesambay

Raa-beburi, Raa-beberi be

Cleome viscosa L.

Common in open areas The plant is used to treat various disorders such as diarrhea, fever, inflammation, liver diseases, bronchitis, skin diseases and malarial fever. The juice is a remedy for piles, lumbago, and earache. The leaves are diaphoretic, rubefacient and vesicant and a

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uses: The plant is used to treat various disorders such as diarrhea, fever, inflammation, liver diseases, bronchitis, skin diseases and malarial fever. The juice is a remedy for piles, lumbago, and earache. The leaves are diaphoretic, rubefacient and vesicant and are used as an external © application to wounds and ulcers. Seeds are used in curries and are also added to tobacco to enhance narcotic quality. Th reat & damage: Cleome is a noxious weed in some countries. Its spread need be monitored and timely control measures adopted before its becomes a serious threat.
family: Capparaceae
synonym: Cleome icosandra L., Polanisia icosandra (L.) Wight & Arn.
description: Annual herbs, shoots with stalked glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-7 foliolate; leaflets subsessile, 0.6- × 3.5 0.3-2 cm, elliptic-oblong or obovate to spathulate, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margins ciliate, glandular pubescent; petiole to 5 cm long. Racemes terminal, lax, few- flowered, corymbiform. Flowers 1-1.5 cm across; pedicels to 1 cm long, elongate during × fruiting. Sepals 4, 4-8 2-3 mm, lanceolate, apex acute, glandular hairy without. Petals × 4, yellow, 6-12 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. Capsule 5-6.5 0.3-0.5 cm, linear- oblong, terete, striate, densely glandular hairy; seeds many, 1-1.5 mm across, reniform, transversely ridged, reddish-brown.
native range: Not clearly known
distribution: Southeast Asia, tropical Australia, tropical Africa, Central and South America.
english names: Yellow mesambay · Wild mustard · Dog mustard
flowering fruiting: March – July
occurrence maldives: Common in open areas