Cleome spinosa

Cleome spinosa, called the spiny spider flower, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cleome, native to the New World Tropics, and introduced to the United States, tropical Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Vietnam, New Caledonia, and Korea.[2] It is pollinated by bats.[3]

Cleome spinosa
At the University of Wrocław Botanical Garden
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleome
Species:
C. spinosa
Binomial name
Cleome spinosa
Synonyms[2]
List
    • Cleome erucago Mill.
    • Cleome heptaphylla L.
    • Cleome pubescens Sims
    • Cleome pungens Willd.
    • Cleome pungens var. swartziana Griseb.
    • Cleome sandwicensis A.Gray
    • Cleome spinosa Sw.
    • Cleome spinosa f. pungens (Willd.) Eichler
    • Cleome spinosa var. subinermis Kuntze
    • Cleome tonduzii Briq.
    • Neocleome spinosa (Jacq.) Small
    • Tarenaya spinosa (Jacq.) Raf.

References
  1. Enum. Syst. Pl.: 26 (1760)
  2. "Cleome spinosa Jacq". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  3. Machado, Isabel; Cristina Lopes, Ariadna; Valentina Leite, Ana; Virgíniade Brito Neves, Cleci (2006). "Cleome spinosa (Capparaceae): Polygamodioecy and pollination by bats in urban and Caatinga areas, northeastern Brazil". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. 127: 69–82. doi:10.1127/0006-8152/2006/0127-0069.
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