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Spider Flower Family
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Spider Flower Family

Cleomaceae

The Cleomaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, comprising about 300 species in 10 genera, or about 150 species in 17 genera. These genera were previously included in the family Capparaceae, but were raised to a distinct family when DNA evidence suggested the genera included in it are more closely related to the Brassicaceae than they are to the Capparaceae. The APG II system allows for Cleomaceae to be included in...

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Spider Flowers

genusCleome

stinkweed

genusCleomella

clammyweeds

genusPolanisia

Podandrogyne

genusPodandrogyne

Physostemon

genusPhysostemon

Areocleome

genusAreocleome

Cleoserrata

genusCleoserrata

Carsonia

genusCarsonia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71409.