✿Capparaceae · Cleome
Cheruvela / Spindle Pod
Cleome monophylla
HerboutdoorMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cleome monophylla
- Genus
- Cleome
- Family
- Capparaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Waste places and cultivated fields
- Habitat type
- Cultivated, Wasteland
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Africa, Asia
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Assam, Odisha, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Simple oval/roundrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Cheruvela itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Purple/pinkrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Cheruvela itself; the rest are typical of the Capparaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- Cheruvela, Kattukadugu
About Cheruvela
A member of the Capparaceae family, Spindle Pod (Cleome monophylla) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and 28 other states. It grows in waste places and cultivated fields. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Capparaceae
Caper Family
Cheruvela belongs to the Capparaceae family.
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