View source for Peritoma platycarpa

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|accepted_name=Peritoma platycarpa
|accepted_authority=(Torrey) H. H. Iltis
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=17: 449. 2007
|year=2007
}}
|common_names=Golden bee-plant
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cleome platycarpa
|authority=Torrey
|publication_title=in C. Wilkes et al., U.S. Expl. Exped.
|publication_place=17: 235, plate 2. 1874
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Celome platycarpa
|authority=(Torrey) Greene
}}
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Peritoma;Peritoma platycarpa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cleomaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Peritoma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Peritoma platycarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 205
|treatment_page=page 208
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 10–60 cm. <b>Stems</b> densely branched basally; purple-tinged; glandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: (stipules scalelike, minute, obscured by pubescence); petiole 1.5–4.5 cm; leaflets 3, blade flat, ovate to obovate, 1–3.5 × 0.5–1.3 cm, margins serrulate-denticulate or entire, apex obtuse, surfaces glandular-pubescent. <b>Racemes</b> 1–3.5 cm (5–40 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, obovate to spatulate, 3–25 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 7–17 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals deciduous, distinct, yellow, awl-shaped, (3–)4–5(–6) × 3–7 mm, margins entire, densely glandular-hairy; petals golden yellow, oblong, 6–12 × 0.3–0.4(–0.6) mm; stamens yellow, 10–17 mm; anthers 1.8–2 mm; gynophore 10–18 mm in fruit; ovary (compressed), 3.5–5 mm; style 1–3 mm. <b>Capsules</b> (pendent) not inflated, 12–25 × 8–12 mm, striate, (glandular-pubescent). <b>Seeds</b> 10–20, brownish black, spheroidal, 3–3.2 mm, (glossy) smooth. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alkaline clay soils, volcanic tuff, dry foothills, among junipers, in sagebrush scrub, fields, railroads
|elevation=800-1200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Peritoma platycarpa</i> resembles some species of <i>Cleomella</i> in the absence of a nectary-disc, shape of the replum, and indument.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Peritoma platycarpa
|author=
|authority=(Torrey) H. H. Iltis
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Celome platycarpa
|basionyms=Cleome platycarpa
|family=Cleomaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alkaline clay soils, volcanic tuff, dry foothills, among junipers, in sagebrush scrub, fields, railroads
|elevation=800-1200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2007
|special status=
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|genus=Peritoma
|species=Peritoma platycarpa
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