Cleomella longipes | |
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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: | Cleomella |
Species: | C. longipes
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Binomial name | |
Cleomella longipes
Torr.
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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]
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]
Cleomella longipes | |
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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: | Cleomella |
Species: | C. longipes
|
Binomial name | |
Cleomella longipes
Torr.
|
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]
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]