Cleome

Accepted species 174 Documented here 44 Family Cleomaceae

Accepted species 174 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cleome dodecandra L. 760 documented
Cleome viscosa L. 433 documented
Cleome rutidosperma DC. 411 documented
Cleome monophylla L. 192 documented
Cleome gynandra L. 125 documented
Cleome maculata (Sond.) Szyszył. 76 documented
Cleome aldenella W.R.Ernst 75 documented
Cleome rubella Burch. 54 documented
Cleome angustifolia Forssk. 43 documented
Cleome chelidonii L.f. 41 documented
Cleome hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. 36 documented
Cleome anomala Kunth 28 documented
Cleome conrathii Burtt Davy 28 documented
Cleome erosa (Nutt.) Eaton 25 documented
Cleome aspera J.Koenig ex DC. 18 documented
Cleome chilensis DC. 18 documented
Cleome felina L.f. 16 documented
Cleome uniglandulosa Cav. 15 documented
Cleome violacea L. 14 documented
Cleome jamesii (Torr. & A.Gray) Govaerts 13 documented
Cleome serrata Jacq. 13 documented
Cleome cordobensis Eichler ex Griseb. 12 documented
Cleome droserifolia (Forssk.) Delile 12 documented
Cleome angulata (DC.) Schult. & Schult.f. 10 documented
Cleome decipiens Triana & Planch. 10 documented
Cleome macrophylla (Klotzsch) Briq. 10 documented
Cleome pilosa Benth. 10 documented
Cleome amblyocarpa Barratte & Murb. 9 documented
Cleome pallida Kotschy 9 documented
Cleome gigantea L. 8 documented
Cleome elegantissima Briq. 7 documented
Cleome africana Botsch. 5 documented
Cleome hispidula (DC.) Govaerts 5 documented
Cleome lechleri Eichler 5 documented
Cleome magnifica Briq. 5 documented
Cleome chrysantha Decne. 4 documented
Cleome foliosa Hook.f. 4 documented
Cleome quinquenervia DC. 4 documented
Cleome tetrandra Banks ex DC. 4 documented
Cleome cleomoides (F.Muell.) Iltis 3 documented
Cleome kalachariensis Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 3 documented
Cleome oxalidea F.Muell. 3 documented
Cleome paradoxa R.Br. ex DC. 3 documented
Cleome titubans Speg. 3 documented
Cleome brachycarpa Vahl ex DC. 12 below the evidence gate
Cleome rupicola Vicary 3 below the evidence gate
Cleome speciosa Raf. 3 below the evidence gate
Cleome iberica DC. 2 below the evidence gate
Cleome oxyphylla Burch. 2 below the evidence gate
Cleome simplicifolia (Cambess.) Hook.f. & Thomson 2 below the evidence gate
Cleome guianensis Aubl. 1 below the evidence gate
Cleome longifolia C.Presl 1 below the evidence gate
Cleome microaustralica Iltis 1 below the evidence gate
Cleome suffruticosa Schinz 1 below the evidence gate
Cleome × ecuadorica Heilborn 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome albescens Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome allamani Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome arabica L. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome arenitensis Craven, Lepschi & Fryxell 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome ariana Hedge & Lamond 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome augustinensis (Hochr.) Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome bahiana (Iltis & Costa-e-Silva ex Soares Neto & Roalson) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome bahiensis (Ule) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome bojeri Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome bororensis (Klotzsch) Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome brachiata (Bojer) Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome brachystyla Deflers 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome brevipetiolata D.F.Chamb. & Lamond 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome briquetii Polhill 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome bundeica P.S.Short 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome burttii R.A.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome carnosa (Pax) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome chapalensis Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome chiriquensis (Standl.) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome chodatiana Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome coccinea (Benth.) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome coeruleo-rosea Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome coluteoides Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome cornusafricani (Thulin) Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome densiflora (Benth.) Triana & Planch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome densifolia C.H.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome domingensis Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome drepanocarpa O.Schwartz 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome dumosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome flava Banks ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome foliolosa DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome formosa (Cochrane) N.Zamora 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome fosteriana Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome frutescens Aubl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome gallaensis Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome glandulosa Ruiz & Pav. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome glaucescens DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome gobica Grubov 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome gordjagini Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome gossweileri Exell 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome hadramautica Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome hanburyana Penz. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome hemsleyana (Bullock) Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome heratensis Bunge & Bien. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome humilis Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome iberidella Welw. ex Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome insolata P.S.Short 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome jamesonii Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome karachiensis S.Riaz, Abid & Qaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome karjaginii Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome kelleriana (Schinz) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome kenneallyi Hewson 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome kermesina Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome kersiana Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome khorassanica Bunge & Bien. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome laburnifolia Roessler 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome lanceolata (Mart. & Zucc.) Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome leptorachis Linden & Planch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome lilloi M.Gómez 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome limmenensis P.S.Short 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome limoneolens J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome linophylla (O.Schwarz) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome lipskyi Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome longipes Lamb. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome lophosperma P.S.Short 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome macradenia Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome macrorhiza C.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome mathewsii Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome melanosperma S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome monandra DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome monophylloides R.Wilczek 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome moricandii Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome moritziana Klotzsch ex Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome mossamedensis Exell & Mendonça 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome niamniamensis Schweinf. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome oligandra Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome omanensis (D.F.Chamb. & Lamond) Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome ornithopodioides L. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome oxypetala Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome pakistanica (Jafri) Khatoon & A.Perveen 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome paludosa Willd. ex Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome parvipetala R.A.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome parvisepala Heilborn 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome parvula R.A.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome paxii (Schinz) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome perrieri Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome polyanthera Schweinf. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome polytricha Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome postrata D.Subram. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome procumbens Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome puberula Triana & Planch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome puccionia Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome pulchella (Lindl.) Schult. & Schult.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome ramosissima Parl. ex Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome rostrata Bobrov 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome rotundifolia (Mart. & Zucc.) Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome rubelloides Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome scaposa DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome schimperi Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome schlechteri Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome semitetrandra Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome silvatica Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome socotrana Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome stenopetala Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome stenophylla Klotzsch ex Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome stevensiana Schult. & Schult.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome stricta (Klotzsch) R.A.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome strigosa (Bojer) Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome stylosa Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome tenella L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome tenuifolia (Mart. & Zucc.) Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome tenuis S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome tomentella Popov 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome trachysperma (Torr. & A.Gray) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome turkmena Bobrov 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome uncifera Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome usambarica Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome vahliana Fresen. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleome yunnanensis W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.