Cleomella refracta

Cleomella refracta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleomella
Species:
C. refracta
Binomial name
Cleomella refracta
(Engelm.) J.C.Hall & Roalson (2015)
Synonyms
  • Cleome refracta (Engelm.) Mabb. (2017)
  • Cleomella coulteri Harv. ex A.Gray (1852)
  • Wislizenia costellata Rose ex Greene (1906)
  • Wislizenia melilotoides Greene (1906)
  • Wislizenia refracta Engelm. (1848)
  • Wislizenia refracta var. melilotoides (Greene) I.M. Johnst. (1924)
  • Wislizenia scabrida Eastw. (1903)

Cleomella refracta, common names jackass clover or spectacle fruit, is a species of flowering plant in the cleome family, Cleomaceae. It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly Chihuahua, Sonora, trans-Pecos Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California (Riverside, Kern and San Bernardino Counties). The species occurs in sandy flats, desert scrub and disturbed sites such as roadsides.

Cleomella refracta is an annual herb up to 200 cm (78.5 in) tall. Leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets ovate (egg-shaped), up to 5 cm (2 in) long. Its flowers are yellow.

References

  1. 1 2 Cleomella refracta (Engelm.) J.C.Hall & Roalson. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Calflora Taxon Report
  3. ↑ Flora of North America v 7 p 214
  4. ↑ Wislizenus, Friedrich (Frederick) Adolph. Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition in 1846 and 1847 99. 1848.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Holmgren, N. H., P. K. Holmgren & A.J. Cronquist. 2005. Vascular plants of the intermountain west, U.S.A., subclass Dilleniidae. 2(B): 1–488. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.
  7. ↑ Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. California Flora 1–1681. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  8. ↑ Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert 2 vols. Stanford University Press, Stanford.