Cleomella

Accepted species 22 Documented here 16 Family Cleomaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Cleomella arborea (Nutt.) Roalson & J.C.Hall 1,214 documented
Cleomella serrulata (Pursh) Roalson & J.C.Hall 426 documented
Cleomella lutea (Hook.) Roalson & J.C.Hall 110 documented
Cleomella obtusifolia Torr. & Frém. 102 documented
Cleomella refracta (Engelm.) J.C.Hall & Roalson 64 documented
Cleomella palmeri (A.Gray) J.C.Hall & Roalson 49 documented
Cleomella hillmanii A.Nelson 34 documented
Cleomella parviflora A.Gray 34 documented
Cleomella sparsifolia (S.Watson) J.C.Hall & Roalson 27 documented
Cleomella plocasperma S.Watson 25 documented
Cleomella platycarpa (Torr.) Roalson & J.C.Hall 20 documented
Cleomella oxystyloides Roalson, J.C.Hall & Riser 16 documented
Cleomella longipes Torr. 14 documented
Cleomella multicaulis (DC.) J.C.Hall & Roalson 9 documented
Cleomella brevipes S.Watson 8 documented
Cleomella angustifolia Torr. 5 documented
Cleomella californica (Greene) Roalson & J.C.Hall 0 below the evidence gate
Cleomella jaliscensis E.Villegas & R.Delgad. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleomella jonesii (J.F.Macbr.) J.C.Hall & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Cleomella mexicana Moc. & Sessé ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleomella palmeriana M.E.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Cleomella perennis Iltis 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.