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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 Cleome is in southwestern Asia. There are only two true Cleome in North America. Other native and adventive species formerly included in Cleome are placed in Arivela, Cleoserrata, Gynandropsis, Hemiscola, Peritoma, and Tarenaya.</p>
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==Key==
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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/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_299.xml
|genus=Cleome
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