Cleome rutidosperma DC.
Fringed Spiderflower / Keramujut (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Annual herb that can reach up to 1 m tall. Leaves are compound trifoliate, alternately and spirally arranged, glabrous or hairy. Leaflets are subsessile. Leaflet blades are broadly elliptic to lanceolate, acute to acuminate at apex, cuneate at base with toothed margin. Stems are erect, fragile, subglabrous to hairy. Inflorescence a raceme arising at leaf axils. Flowers are slender, light purple to whitish-pink. Fruit a linear-ellipsoid capsule. Seeds are orange-brown turning black when
Fresh fruits and flower buds are gathered, squeezed to extract the juice. The juice is applied externally to maintain general health. The plant is known for its antioxidant activity.
It prefers moist but well- drained soil under full sunlight.
Seeds.
Native to tropical Africa and has been introduced and become naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, the Americas and the West Indies.
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