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Cleomella plocasperma
S. Wats.
No occurrences found
Family:
Cleomaceae
twisted cleomella
[
Cleomella mojavensis
Payson,
more
Cleomella oocarpa
Gray,
Cleomella plocasperma var. mojavensis
(Payson) Crum ex Jeps.,
Cleomella plocasperma var. stricta
Crum ex Jeps.,
Cleomella stenosperma
Coville apud Tidestr.
]
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Resources
Staria S. Vanderpool in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Plants
10-55(-85) cm.
Stems
sparsely branched distally (central stem dominant); gla-brous.
Leaves:
stipules (scarious) 0.5-1 mm; petiole 0.8-2 cm; leaflet blade linear-elliptic, 1.5-4.5 × 0.2-0.7 cm, thin, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences
racemes, terminating stems and branches, 1-15 cm (2-20 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, 5-25 mm.
Pedicels
ascending in fruit, 5-10 mm (6-12 mm in fruit).
Flowers:
sepals green, lanceolate, 0.9-2.2 × 0.5-0.7 mm, glabrous; petals yellow or orange, oblong, 3.5-5(-7) × 1.4-1.6(-2) mm, hairy abaxially; stamens yellow, 8-12 mm; anthers 1.5-1.9 mm; gynophore ascending, 6-10 mm in fruit; ovary rhomboidal, 1-1.5 mm; style 0.8-1.2 mm.
Capsules
ovoid to rhomboidal, 2.5-5 × 2.5-6(-8) mm, glabrous.
Seeds
2-4, silver-gray with black mottling, globose, 2-2.2 mm, smooth. Flowering mid spring-fall. Wet alkaline meadows, greasewood flats, around thermal springs; 800-1400 m; Calif., Idaho, Nev., Oreg., Utah.
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