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Cleomella parviflora
A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 6: 520. 1865.
Slender stinkweed
Plants
3-45 cm.
Stems
sometimes branched distally (erect or somewhat spreading); glabrous.
Leaves:
stipules finely divided into crinkled threads (scarious), 1-2 mm; petiole 0.2-0.6(-0.9) cm; leaflet blade linear-elliptic, planoconvex, 0.5-3.5 × 0.1-0.4 cm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences
racemes, terminating stems and branches (from all but 2 or 3 proximalmost nodes), 0.5-20 cm (5-30 cm in fruit); bracts trifoliate or unifoliate, 1-3 cm.
Pedicels
spreading in fruit, 2-6 mm (12-20 mm in fruit).
Flowers:
sepals green, broadly lanceolate, 0.5-1 × 0.3-0.6 mm, glabrous; petals pale yellow, oblong, 1.8-2.8 × 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous; stamens yellow, 1.5-3 mm; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm; gynophore spreading, 0.5-2 mm in fruit; ovary spherical, 0.8—1.3 mm; style 0.1-0.2 mm.
Capsules
rhomboidal, 2.5-5 × 2.5-6 mm, (smooth), glabrous, (valves scarcely conical).
Seeds
3-12, light brown, globose, 1.2-2 mm, smooth.
Flowering spring-summer. Wet alkaline meadows around thermal springs in sagebrush desert; 1200-2000 m; Calif., Idaho, Nev.
Cleomella parviflora
is often found growing with
C. brevipes
and
C. plocasperma
.
