Cleome macrophylla(Klotzsch) Briq.

WFO wfo-0000611412 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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 macrophylla, photographed by James Deacon
fig. a James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-02-20 / obs. 116376509
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Wynand Uys
fig. b Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175362607
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Ryan van Huyssteen
fig. c Ryan van Huyssteen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13422217
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63590293
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63590308
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. f Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176913718
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. g Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176913798
Cleome macrophylla, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. h Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176913892

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Cleome macrophylla is native: Botswana, DR Congo, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe BotswanaDR CongoEswatiniKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNorthern ProvincesTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Cleome macrophylla, 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
Botswana BOT AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Eswatini SWZ
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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 11 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.

  • Chilocalyx macrophyllus Klotzsch
  • Chilocalyx tenuifolius Klotzsch
  • Cleome chilocalyx Oliv.
  • Cleome chilocalyx var. tenuifolia (Klotzsch) Oliv.
  • Cleome inconcinna Briq.
  • Cleome macrophylla var. maculatiflora (Merxm.) Wild
  • Cleome nationae Burtt Davy
  • Sieruela macrophylla (Klotzsch) Roalson & J.C.Hall
  • Tetratelia nationae (Burtt Davy) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Tetratelia tenuifolia (Klotzsch) Arw.
  • Tetratelia tenuifolia var. maculatiflora Merxm.

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.