Biology:Cleomella longipes

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cleomella longipes
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Vulnerable (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleomella
Species:
C. longipes
Binomial name
Cleomella longipes

Cleomella longipes, the Chiricahua Mountain stinkweed, is a plant species native to northern Mexico and to the southwestern United States . It has been reported from Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, trans-Pecos Texas , New Mexico (Grant and Hidalgo Counties) Arizona (Cochise County). It is found on saline or alkaline flats at elevations of 500–1000 m.[2][3]

Description

Cleomella longipes is a sparsely-branched annual herb up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are narrowly elliptic, up to 5 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes at the top of the plant and on the tips of branches. Sepals are green, petals yellow, up to 9 mm long and 4 mm wide.[2][4][5][6] The bloom period is between the months of May and September. It is an smooth annual plant. The leaves shape is lanceolate, oblanceolate, or oblong. The leaves have a glabrous pubescent. The leaf apex is either acute or emarginate.[7]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15519214 entry