Cleome droserifolia(Forssk.) Delile

WFO wfo-0000611246 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 droserifolia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. a Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-17 / obs. 63819970
Cleome droserifolia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. b Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63819982
Cleome droserifolia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. c Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63819977

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Cleome droserifolia is native: Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Gulf States, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Yemen DjiboutiEgyptEritreaLibyaSomaliaSudan-South SudanGulf StatesIranLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiYemen
Native distribution of Cleome droserifolia, 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
Gulf States GST ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Yemen YEM
Djibouti DJI AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Libya LBY
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 12 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 austroarabica D.F.Chamb. & Lamond
  • Cleome austroarabica subsp. muscatensis D.F.Chamb. & Lamond
  • Cleome brachyadenia Schwartz
  • Cleome droserifolia Franch.
  • Cleome ovalifolia Franch.
  • Cleome pruinosa T.Anderson
  • Cleome roridula R.Br.
  • Rorida arabica J.F.Gmel.
  • Rorida droserifolia (Forssk.) Thulin & Roalson
  • Roridula arabica Roem. & Schult.
  • Roridula droserifolia Forssk.
  • Roridula tetrandra Vitman

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. 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.