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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cleomella
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in A. P de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. Pde Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=1: 237. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Stinkweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Cleomella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cleomaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cleomella]]</div></div>
|etymology=Generic name Cleome, and Latin -ella, dimunitive
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 200, 205, 208
|treatment_page=page 209
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> usually annual [perennial] (usually unpleasantly scented). <b>Stems</b> sparsely or profusely branched (usually erect); glabrous, pubescent, or scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules (sometimes deciduous), 3–8-palmatifid, threadlike, or setaceous; petiole without pulvinus (usually longer than leaflets); leaflets (1 or) 3. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemes, corymbs, or flowers solitary in distal leaf axils (sometimes remaining compact in fruit); bracts usually present (pedicels often anthocyanic). <b>Flowers</b> actinomorphic; sepals persistent, connate basally (ca. 1/4 of length) [distinct], equal (each often subtending a nectary); petals equal; stamens 6 (usually exserted, distinct, equal); filaments inserted on a discoid or conical androgynophore, glabrous; anthers (ellipsoid), coiling as pollen is released; gynophore reflexed, spreading, or ascending in fruit. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscent (as long as or shorter than wide), rhomboidal, globose, deltoid, or ovoid (valves laterally expanded, falling away from round, persistent septum). <b>Seeds</b> 1–16, globose or reniform, not arillate, (cleft fused between ends). <b>x</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 10 (8 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The two extraterritorial species of Cleomella are C. mexicana de Candolle and C. perennis H. H. Iltis, both known from central and northern Mexico.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=payson1922b
|text=Payson, E. B. 1922b. A synoptical revision of the genus Cleomella. Univ. Wyoming Publ. Sci., Bot. 1: 29–46.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Gynophore 0.5-3 mm in fruit; petals 1.5-2.8 mm
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Gynophore 2.5-17 mm in fruit; petals 3-9 mm
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pedicels recurved in fruit (± equal to gynophore), 1-2 mm; inflorescences solitary flowers in axils of closely spaced leaves.
|[[Cleomella brevipes|Cleomella brevipes]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Pedicels spreading in fruit (much longer than gynophore), 12-20 mm (in fruit); inflorescences racemes, terminating stems and branches.
|[[Cleomella parviflora|Cleomella parviflora]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade surfaces (and sometimes stems) spreading-hispidulous; styles 2-3(-5) mm; plants usually spreading or matlike, sometimes erect.
|[[Cleomella obtusifolia|Cleomella obtusifolia]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade surfaces (and stems) glabrous; styles 0.3-2 mm; plants ± erect
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Gynophore 2.5-6(-8) mm in fruit; bracts ± rudimentary; plants without dominant central stem.
|[[Cleomella palmeriana|Cleomella palmeriana]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Gynophore 3.5-17 mm in fruit; bracts unifoliate or trifoliate (5-25 mm); plants with dominant central stem
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaflet blades ovate-elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, 0.4-1.4 cm wide (usually 1.5-2.5 times longer than wide)
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaflet blades linear to elliptic, 0.2-0.8 cm wide (usually 3-10 times longer than wide)
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Petioles 2-6(-8) cm; petals 1.8-2.2 mm wide; anthers 2.5-3 mm; California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah.
|[[Cleomella hillmanii|Cleomella hillmanii]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Petioles 0.8-2 cm; petals 2-4 mm wide; anthers 1.5-1.9 mm; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.
|[[Cleomella longipes|Cleomella longipes]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Sepals deltate, 0.5-1 mm wide; styles 0.3-0.5 mm; gynophore reflexed in fruit; capsules 4-6 × 6-12 mm, rhomboidal; seeds 2-3 mm, rugose.
|[[Cleomella angustifolia|Cleomella angustifolia]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Sepals lanceolate, 0.5-0.7 mm wide; styles 0.8-1.2 mm; gynophore ascending in fruit; capsules 2.5-5 × 2.5-6(-8) mm, ovoid to rhomboidal; seeds 2-2.2 mm, smooth.
|[[Cleomella plocasperma|Cleomella plocasperma]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cleomella
|author=Staria S. Vanderpool
|authority=de Candolle in A. P de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cleomaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico.
|reference=payson1922b
|publication title=in A. Pde 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/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_282.xml
|genus=Cleomella
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