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.[1][2]

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

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

  1. 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
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