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Cleome spinosa - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Cleome spinosa - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome spinosa - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome spinosa - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome spinosa - Spines - Click to enlarge!

Spines; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome spinosa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cleome spinosa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1515
Date of entry: 08.01.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Spiny spider-flower

German: Spinnenblume

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Brassicales (19)

        Family: Cleomaceae (9)(family description)

          Genus: Cleome (8)

            Epithet: spinosa Jacq. (8)

spinosa => having spines or thorns

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet, pink

External links

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