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Physostemon
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Physostemon

Cleome is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cleomaceae, commonly known as spider flowers, spider plants, spider weeds, or bee plants. Previously, it had been placed in the family Capparaceae, until DNA studies found the Cleomaceae genera to be more closely related to the Brassicaceae than the Capparaceae. Cleome and clammyweed (Polanisia dodecandra) can sometimes be confused.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Physostemon guianensis

speciesPhysostemon guianensis

Physostemon rotundifolius

speciesPhysostemon rotundifolius

Physostemon lanceolatus

speciesPhysostemon lanceolatus

Physostemon tenuifolius

speciesPhysostemon tenuifolius

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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 902893.