Cleome quinquenerviaDC.

WFO wfo-0000611544 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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 quinquenervia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. a Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-08-13 / obs. 48040636
Cleome quinquenervia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. b Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48040628
Cleome quinquenervia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. c Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48040651
Cleome quinquenervia, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. d Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48040656

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K006015249
Filed as
Cleome quinquenervia DC.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
s.coll.
Origin
IQ
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Cleome quinquenervia is native: Afghanistan, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanGulf StatesIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaOmanSaudi ArabiaTadzhikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanYemenIndiaPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Cleome quinquenervia, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Tadzhikistan TZK
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

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 8 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 dolichostyla Jafri
  • Cleome fimbriata Vicary
  • Cleome griffithiana Rech.f.
  • Cleome noeana Boiss.
  • Cleome noeana var. fimbriata Regel & Schmalh.
  • Cleome noeana var. persepolitana Bornm.
  • Cleome quinquenervia var. noeana (Boiss.) Parsa
  • Rorida quinquenervia (DC.) Thulin & Roalson

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.