Cleome angustifolia, known as golden cleome, yellow cleome or yellow mouse whiskers,[3] is an African species of plant in the Cleomaceae family. It is common along roadsides and in disturbed areas and is eaten as vegetable locally.[3] Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål described C. angustifolia in 1775.[1][4] It is one of three species in genus Cleome (the others being C. gynandra and C. oxalidea) that independently acquired the C4 pathway of carbon fixation. A species close to C. angustifolia, Cleome paradoxa, is C3–C4 intermediate.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Cleomaceae |
| Genus: | Cleome |
| Species: | C. angustifolia
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| Cleome angustifolia | |
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References
edit- ^ a b Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica (in Latin). Hauniæ (Copenhagen): ex officina Mölleri. 1775. p. 120. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.41.
- ^ "Cleome angustifolia Forssk. – The Plant List". 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ a b "Siyabona Africa – Golden Cleome". 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ "Tropicos – Cleome angustifolia Forssk". 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ Feodorova, T.A.; Voznesenskaya, E.V.; Edwards, G.E.; Roalson, E.H. (2010). "Biogeographic patterns of diversification and the origins of C4 in Cleome (Cleomaceae)" (PDF). Systematic Botany. 35 (4): 811–826. doi:10.1600/036364410X539880. ISSN 0363-6445. Retrieved 16 June 2016.