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|accepted_name=Cleome
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 671. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 302. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Spiderflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Cleome
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cleomaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cleome]]</div></div>
|etymology=Origin obscure, perhaps from Greek kleos, glory, or after Kleo, Greek muse of history, first used by Priscian, fourteenth-century medical writer
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 201, 205, 218, 222
|treatment_page=page 215
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or sparsely branched; glandular-pubescent, glabrous, glabrescent, or scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules absent or scalelike; petiole with pulvinus basally or distally, (petiolule basally adnate, forming pulvinar disc); leaflets 1 or 3[–11] (flat). <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary (from distal leaves), racemes (flat-topped or elongated); bracts present [absent]. <b>Flowers</b> zygomorphic; sepals persistent, basally connate (1/2 of length), equal (each often subtending a nectary); petals equal; stamens [4] 6; filaments inserted on a discoid or conical androgynophore, glabrous; anthers (oblong to linear), coiling as pollen is released; gynophore recurved in fruit [obsolete]. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscent, oblong. <b>Seeds</b> 4–25, reniform or ovoid-spheroidal, arillate or not, (cleft fused between ends). <b>x</b> = 10 (?).</span><!--

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|distribution=Old World;warm temperate and tropical areas.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The center of diversity of <i>Cleome</i> is in southwestern Asia. There are only two true <i>Cleome</i> in North America. Other native and adventive species formerly included in <i>Cleome</i> are placed in <i>Arivela</i>, <i>Cleoserrata</i>, <i>Gynandropsis</i>, <i>Hemiscola</i>, <i>Peritoma</i>, and <i>Tarenaya</i>.</p>
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules 25-35 mm; bracts mostly unifoliate; leaflet blade linear to elliptic.
|[[Cleome ornithopodioides|Cleome ornithopodioides]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules 40-70 mm; bracts trifoliate; leaflet blade oblanceolate to rhombic-elliptic.
|[[Cleome rutidosperma|Cleome rutidosperma]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cleome
|author=Gordon C. Tucker
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cleomaceae
|distribution=Old World;warm temperate and tropical areas.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_299.xml
|genus=Cleome
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