Cleome amblyocarpaBarratte & Murb.

Spider flower

WFO wfo-0000611120 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. a Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-30 / obs. 174146785
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. b Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178787046
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. c Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178787061
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178787081
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178787099
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. f Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174146774
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. g Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174146747
Cleome amblyocarpa, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. h Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174146761

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Cleome amblyocarpa is native: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Iraq, Palestine, Sinai AlgeriaChadEgyptEritreaEthiopiaLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoSomaliaSudan-South SudanTunisiaWestern SaharaIraqPalestineSinai
Native distribution of Cleome amblyocarpa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Libya LBY
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Iraq IRQ ASIA-TEMPERATE
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cleome amblyocarpa var. glandulosa (Forssk.) Botsch.
  • Cleome arabica var. amblyocarpa (Barratte & Murb.) Ozenda
  • Cleome arabica var. lutea Parsa
  • Cleome daryoushiana Parsa
  • Cleome hexandra Poir. ex Steud.
  • Siliquaria glandulosa Forssk.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.