Spider Flower
Cleome hassleriana
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Meghalaya
How to identify Spider Flower
Identify Spider Flower by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Large showy flowers with very long stamens (ornamental spider flower).
- Confirm leaf type: Palmately compound.
- Confirm leaf shape: Palmately compound (five+ leaflets).
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- Confirm fruit type: Capsule.
- In India, compare location records such as Meghalaya.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cleome hassleriana
- Genus
- Cleome
- Family
- Capparaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Meghalaya
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Palmately compoundrecordedLeaflets radiate outward from a single point, like fingers on a hand.“The leaves are palmately compound, with five or seven leaflets, the leaflets up to 12 cm (5 in) long and 4 cm (2 in) broad and the leaf petiole up to 15 cm (6 in) long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- Palmately compound (five+ leaflets)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Spider Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded“Cleome houtteana, commonly known as spider flower, spider plant, pink queen, or grandfather's whiskers, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cleome of the family Cleomaceae” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.“The fruit is a capsule up to 15 cm long and 3 mm (0.1 in) broad, containing several seeds.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Spider Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- মাকড়শা হুড়হুড়ি
About Spider Flower
Spider Flower (Cleome hassleriana) is a herb in the Capparaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Meghalaya.
Capparaceae
Caper Family
Spider Flower belongs to the Capparaceae family.
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