Cleome longipes

Cleome longipes
Scientific 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 skinny seed pod. These all emerge from a tiny flower only one-twelfth inch (two millimeters) wide.^[1]

References

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

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