Cleomella refracta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleomella
Species:
C. refracta
Binomial name
Cleomella refracta
(Engelm.) J.C.Hall & Roalson (2015)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cleome refracta (Engelm.) Mabb. (2017)
  • Cleomella coulteri Harv. ex A.Gray (1852)
  • Wislizenia costellata Rose ex Greene (1906)
  • Wislizenia melilotoides Greene (1906)
  • Wislizenia refracta Engelm. (1848)
  • Wislizenia refracta var. melilotoides (Greene) I.M. Johnst. (1924)
  • Wislizenia scabrida Eastw. (1903)

Cleomella refracta, common names jackass clover or spectacle fruit, is a species of flowering plant in the cleome family, Cleomaceae.[1] It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly Chihuahua, Sonora, trans-Pecos Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California (Riverside, Kern and San Bernardino Counties).[2] The species occurs in sandy flats, desert scrub and disturbed sites such as roadsides.[3]

Cleomella refracta is an annual herb up to 200 cm (78.5 in) tall. Leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets ovate (egg-shaped), up to 5 cm (2 in) long. Its flowers are yellow.[4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 Cleomella refracta (Engelm.) J.C.Hall & Roalson. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Calflora Taxon Report
  3. ↑ Flora of North America v 7 p 214
  4. ↑ Wislizenus, Friedrich (Frederick) Adolph. Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico: connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition in 1846 and 1847 99. 1848.
  5. ↑ Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
  6. ↑ Holmgren, N. H., P. K. Holmgren & A.J. Cronquist. 2005. Vascular plants of the intermountain west, U.S.A., subclass Dilleniidae. 2(B): 1–488. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.
  7. ↑ Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. California Flora 1–1681. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  8. ↑ Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert 2 vols. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
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