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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cleome

pink queen
spiderflower
spiderwisp
yellow cleome

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cleome

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt.
pub. 1993
  
   SuperOrdo  Capparanae Reveal
pub. Phytologia 76: 3. 1994.
  
   Ordo  Capparales Hutch.
pub. Bull. Misc. Inform. 1924: 122. 29 Mai 1924.
  
   Subordo  Capparineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 121. Mai 1898.
  
   Familia  Capparaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 242. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Capers
  
   Subfamilia  Cleomoideae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 867. Jun 1835.
  
   Tribus  Cleomeae DC.
pub. Prodr. 1: 237. mid Jan 1824.
  
   Genus  Cleome L.
pub. (1753)
common name: spiderflower
  

Named members of the Genus Cleome

1
   Species  aculeata L.
common name: prickly spiderflower
2
   Species  aldanella Ernst
syn. Polanisia tenuifolia
3
   Species  ciliata Schumacher
syn. Cleome rutidosperma
4
   Species  diffusa Banks ex DC.
common name: spreading spiderflower
5
   Species  gynandra L.
common name: spiderwisp
6
   Species  hasslerana Chodat
syn. Cleome hassleriana
common name: spiderflower
  
7
   Species  hassleriana Chod.
common name: pink queen
8
   Species  houtteana auct. non Schlecht.
syn. Cleome hassleriana
9
   Species  iberica DC.
common name: Iberian spiderflower
10
   Species  icosandra L.
syn. Cleome viscosa
11
   Species  isomeris Greene
common name: bladderpod spiderflower
12
   Species  jonesii (J.F. Macbr.) Tidestrom
syn. Cleome lutea var. jonesii
13
   Species  lutea Hook.
 
14
   Varietas  jonesii J.F. Macbr.
common name: Jones spiderflower
15
   Varietas  lutea
common name: yellow spiderflower
16
   Species  multicaulis DC.
common name: slender spiderflower
17
   Species  ornithopodioides L.
common name: bird spiderflower
18
   Species  pentaphylla L.
syn. Cleome gynandra
19
   Species  pinnata Pursh
syn. Stanleya pinnata var. pinnata
20
   Species  platycarpa Torr.
common name: golden spiderflower, yellow cleome
  
21
   Species  pungens auct. non Willd.
syn. Cleome hassleriana
22
   Species  rutidosperma DC.
common name: fringed spiderflower
23
   Species  sandwicensis Gray
syn. Cleome spinosa
24
   Species  serrata Jacq.
common name: toothed spiderflower
25
   Species  serrulata Pursh
 
26
   Varietas  angusta (M.E. Jones) Tidestrom
syn. Cleome serrulata
27
   Species  sonorae Sess� & Moc. ex Gray
syn. Cleome multicaulis
28
   Species  sparsifolia S. Wats.
common name: fewleaf spiderflower
29
   Species  speciosa Kunth
syn. Cleome speciosa
30
   Species  speciosissima Deppe ex Lindl.
syn. Cleome speciosa
31
   Species  spinosa Jacq.
common name: spiny spiderflower
32
   Species  stenophylla Klotzsch ex Urban
common name: tropical spiderflower
33
   Species  viscosa L.
common name: Asian spiderflower

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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