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Cleome longipes

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Cleome longipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleome
Species:
C. longipes
Binomial name
Cleome longipes
Lamb. ex DC.

Cleome longipes of the Capper family (Capparidaceae) is a shrub found in the dry tropics and rainforest clearings from Costa Rica to northern Peru. Its most interesting characteristic is its gynophore (stipe of a pistil) which can be up to six inches (15 centimeters) in length (exceeded only by Gigasiphon macrosiphon). bearing an equally long, and very skinney seed pod. These all emerge from a tiny flower only one-twelfth inch (two millimeters) wide.![1]

References

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  1. ^ McBride, J. Francis (October 31, 1938). "<not recorded>". Flora of Peru. part 2 (3): 993–994.