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Key to CleomellaView taxon page for Cleomella
(For a list of species in Cleomella, use the above link.) Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots. 2' Fruit obovoid or spheric 1' Annual, short-lived perennial  Completing life cycle (germination through death) in more than two years or growing seasons, generally non-woody (at least above ground) to woody; includes perennial herbs as well as subshrubs to trees; the abbreviation 'per' only refers to perennial herb, not to the word 'perennial' alone. herb; fruit a capsule, not or ± inflated, or 2 nutlets; petals < 4 mm wide 4. Flowers in axillary  Pertaining to or within an axil, especially a leaf axil. heads; style in fruit stout, spine-like; fruit 2 nutlets ..... C. oxystyloides 4' Flowers in ± terminal racemes or 1 in leaf  Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets). axils; style in fruit stout or not but not spine-like; fruit 2 nutlets or a capsule 5. Fruit 2 nutlets, each 1(3)-seeded; septum 1 mm wide 6. Plant short-lived perennial herb; leaflets 3 below, 1 (leaf simple) above, linear-elliptic, 3–8 × longer than wide; sepals ovate  Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf. , < 1.75 × longer than wide ..... C. palmeri 6' Plant annual; leaflets 3, ovate to obovate, 2–3 × longer than wide; sepals lanceolate  Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip. , > 1.75 × longer than wide 5' Fruit a capsule, 2–many-seeded; septum 1–25 mm wide 8. Fruit 2–6 mm, often wider than long; septum elliptic  In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear to round 9. Receptacle in fruit 0.3–3 mm; petals < 3 mm 10. Flowers 1 in leaf axils; receptacle reflexed  Abruptly bent or curved downward or backward. in fruit ..... C. brevipes 10' Flowers in racemes, sometimes also 1 in leaf axils; receptacle spreading  Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal. to ascending  Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment. in fruit ..... C. parviflora 9' Receptacle in fruit 6–15 mm; petals 3.5–9 mm 11' Plant glabrous; older stems ascending to erect  Upright; vertically oriented. 12. Branches 0 or generally from lower nodes  Position on a stem from which one or more structures (especially leaves, buds, branches, or flowers) arise. ; leaflets elliptic to ovate ..... C. hillmanii var. hillmanii 8' Fruit generally 12–55 mm, longer than wide; septum linear  Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong. to oblong  Longer than wide, with nearly parallel sides; wider than linear. 13' Inflorescence dense, many-flowered; receptacle in fruit 5–18 mm; anthers 1.8–2.6 mm 14. Plant densely glandular-hairy; fruit oblong, ± flat; sepals awl-shaped, generally 4–6 mm ..... C. platycarpa 14' Plant glabrous or ± so; fruit ± linear, not ± flat; sepals ovate to lanceolate, generally 1.6–3 mm 15' Leaflets generally 5; petals golden or pale yellow 16. Fruit 40–60 mm; receptacle in fruit 15–25 mm; petals golden yellow, 10–13 mm; stamens 20–30 mm; plant 5–10(20) dm ..... C. jonesii 16' Fruit 15–40 mm; receptacle in fruit 5–17 mm; petals pale yellow, 5–8 mm; stamens 10–15 mm; plant (1.5)2.5–3 dm ..... C. lutea
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