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|accepted_name=Cleome rutidosperma
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=1: 241. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Fringed spiderflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleome ciliata
|authority=Schumacher & Thonning
}}
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Cleome;Cleome rutidosperma
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cleome rutidosperma]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 216
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 30–100 cm. <b>Stems</b> sparsely branched, (often decumbent); glabrous or glabrescent to slightly scabrous (sometimes glandular-pubescent). <b>Leaves</b>: stipules 0–0.5 mm; petiole (winged proximally), 0.5–3.5 cm; leaflets 3, blade oblanceolate to rhombic-elliptic, 1–3.5 × 0.5–1.7 cm, margins entire or serrulate-ciliate, apex usually acute to obtuse, sometimes acuminate, surfaces with curved hairs on veins abaxially, glabrous adaxially. <b>Racemes</b> 2–4 cm (8–15 cm in fruit); bracts trifoliate, 10–35 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 11–21 mm (18–30 mm in fruit). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals yellow, lanceolate, 2.5–4 × 0.2–0.3 mm, margins denticulate, ciliate, glabrous; petals white or purple-speckled (2 central ones with yellow transverse band abaxially), oblong to narrowly ovate, 7–10 × 1.5–2.3 mm; stamens yellow, 5–7 mm; anthers 1–2 mm; gynophore 4–12 mm in fruit; ovary 2–3 mm, glabrous; style 0.5–1.4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 40–70 × 3–4 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 4–25, reddish brown to black, reniform, 1–1.5 mm, arillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering ± year-round.
|habitat=Roadsides, vacant lots, canal banks, lawn edges in sun or shade
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Fla.;S.C.;tropical Asia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Cleome rutidosperma</i> has sometimes been misidentified as <i>Hemiscola aculeata</i> (<i>Cleome</i> aculeata); it lacks the nodal spines of that species.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cleome rutidosperma
|author=
|authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cleome ciliata
|basionyms=
|family=Cleomaceae
|phenology=Flowering ± year-round.
|habitat=Roadsides, vacant lots, canal banks, lawn edges in sun or shade
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Fla.;S.C.;tropical Asia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_301.xml
|genus=Cleome
|species=Cleome rutidosperma
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