Cleomella plocasperma |
Cleomella brevipes |
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alkali cleomella, alkali stinkweed, twisted cleomella |
short-pedicelled cleomella, shortstalk cleomella, shortstalk stinkweed |
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Habit | Plants 10–55(–85) cm. | Plants 3–15(–35) cm. |
Stems | sparsely branched distally (central stem dominant); glabrous. |
profusely branched (erect or spreading and matlike); glaucous, scabrous. |
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. |
stipules finely divided into crinkled threads, 2 mm; petiole 0.1–0.3 cm; leaflet blade linear-obovate, 0.5–1.5 × 0.1–0.3 cm, fleshy, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate, surfaces scabrous. |
Inflorescences | racemes, terminating stems and branches, 1–15 cm (2–20 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, 5–25 mm. |
solitary flowers in axils of closely spaced leaves throughout; bracts unifoliate, 8–10 mm. |
Pedicels | ascending in fruit, 5–10 mm (6–12 mm in fruit). |
reflexed in fruit, 1–2 mm. |
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. |
sepals green, ovate, 0.8–1.2 × 0.3–0.7 mm, glabrous; petals pale yellow, oblong, 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm, glabrous; stamens yellow, 1.5–2.2 mm; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; gynophore strongly reflexed, 0.5–3 mm in fruit; ovary globose, 1–1.5 mm; style 2–3(–5) mm. |
Capsules | ovoid to rhomboidal, 2.5–5 × 2.5–6(–8) mm, glabrous. |
globose or deltoid, 2–3 × 2–3.2 mm, glabrous, (valves triangular). |
Seeds | 2–4, silver-gray with black mottling, globose, 2–2.2 mm, smooth. |
1–4, yellowish, globose, 1.3–1.7 mm, smooth. |
Cleomella plocasperma |
Cleomella brevipes |
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Phenology | Flowering mid spring–fall. | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Wet alkaline meadows, greasewood flats, around thermal springs | Alkaline marshes, wet saline soils around thermal springs |
Elevation | 800-1400 m (2600-4600 ft) | 400-1400 m (1300-4600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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CA; NV
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 213. | FNA vol. 7, p. 210. |
Parent taxa | Cleomaceae > Cleomella | Cleomaceae > Cleomella |
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Synonyms | C. oöcarpa, C. plocasperma var. mojavensis, C. plocasperma var. stricta | |
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 33. (1871) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 365. (1882) |
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