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Cleomella brevipes
Cleomella brevipes
S. Watson
Family:
Cleomaceae
Flora of North America
Resources
Staria S. Vanderpool in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Plants
3-15(-35) cm.
Stems
profusely branched (erect or spreading and matlike); glau-cous, scabrous.
Leaves:
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
solitary flowers in axils of closely spaced leaves throughout; bracts unifoliate, 8-10 mm.
Pedicels
reflexed in fruit, 1-2 mm.
Flowers:
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
globose or deltoid, 2-3 × 2-3.2 mm, glabrous, (valves triangular).
Seeds
1-4, yellowish, globose, 1.3-1.7 mm, smooth. Flowering spring-fall. Alkaline marshes, wet saline soils around thermal springs; 400-1400 m; Calif., Nev.
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