View source for Peritoma multicaulis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Peritoma multicaulis
|accepted_authority=(de Candolle) H. H. Iltis
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=17: 449. 2007
|year=2007
}}
|common_names=Spiderflower
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleome multicaulis
|authority=de Candolle
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleome sonorae
|authority=A. Gray
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Peritoma sonorae
|authority=(A. Gray) Rydberg
}}
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Peritoma;Peritoma multicaulis
|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 multicaulis]]</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> 20–60 cm. <b>Stems</b> unbranched or sparsely branched; glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.5–1.5 cm; leaflets 3, blade linear to elliptic, 1–2 × 0.1 cm, margins entire, apex long-acuminate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> 1–3 cm (6–40 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, obovate to spatulate, 2–15 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 7–15 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals persistent, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, lanceolate, 1.6–2.6 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins denticulate, glabrous; petals white, pink, or rose, oblong to ovate, 4–5 × 1–1.3 mm; stamens yellow, 4–5 mm; anthers 1.9–2.6 mm; gynophore 10–20 mm in fruit; ovary 3–6 mm; style 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>Capsules</b> (reflexed) not inflated, 15–25 × 1.5 mm, striate, (glabrous). <b>Seeds</b> 10–20, gray to black, triangular (sharply angled), 6–15 × 2–2.5 mm, (acute at both ends) rugose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry to moist open ground, often in saline or volcanic soils
|elevation=700-2000(-2300) m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Wyo.;Mexico (Coahuila;Distrito Federal;Jalisco;México;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Peritoma multicaulis
|author=
|authority=(de Candolle) H. H. Iltis
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cleome sonorae;Peritoma sonorae
|basionyms=Cleome multicaulis
|family=Cleomaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry to moist open ground, often in saline or volcanic soils
|elevation=700-2000(-2300) m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Wyo.;Mexico (Coahuila;Distrito Federal;Jalisco;México;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2007
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_278.xml
|genus=Peritoma
|species=Peritoma multicaulis
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