Species of flowering plant

Cleomella longipes

Scientific classification
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.[1][2]

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.[1][3][4][5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Flora of North America v 7 p 211
2. ^ Torrey, John. 1850. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 2: 255.
3. ^ Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
4. ^ Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1960. Arizona Flora with Supplement (ed. 2) 1032 pp.
5. ^ photo of lectotype of Cleomella longipes at Missouri Botanical Garden

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q15519214
* CoL: 5YZ9G
* EoL: 584219
* FNA: 250094784
* GBIF: 3054251
* iNaturalist: 160712
* IPNI: 30299406-2
* IRMNG: 11257461
* ITIS: 22637
* NatureServe: 2.134590
* NCBI: 202658
* Open Tree of Life: 110687
* Plant List: kew-2727690
* PLANTS: CLLO
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30299406-2
* Tropicos: 5900316
* WFO: wfo-0000611694

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