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Cleomella arborea

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Cleomaceae
Genus: Cleomella
Species:
C. arborea
Binomial name
Cleomella arborea
(Nutt.) Roalson & J.C.Hall[2]
Varieties[2]
  • Cleomella arborea var. angustata (Parish) J.C.Hall & Roalson
  • Cleomella arborea var. arborea
  • Cleomella arborea var. globosa (Coville) J.C.Hall & Roalson
Synonyms[2]
  • Cleome isomeris Greene
  • Isomeris arborea Nutt.
  • Peritoma arborea (Nutt.) Iltis

Cleomella arborea[3][4][2] is a perennial shrub or bush in the spiderflower family (Cleomaceae) known by the common names bladderpod, bladderpod spiderflower, and burro-fat.[5][6][7][8] It has yellow flowers in bloom all months of the year.[7] It emits a foul odor to discourage herbivory from insects.[7]

Range and habitat

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Cleomella arborea is commonly found along roadsides, desert dry washes, and flat areas up to 4,200 feet (1,300 m) in the western Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert to the Baja California Peninsula.[9][7] It is native to California and the Baja California Peninsula where it grows in a variety of habitats usually described as desert or brush.[9]

A typical individual bears flowers and fruit in various stages of development.

Description

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It is a densely branching shrub 0.5–2 metres (1 ft 8 in – 6 ft 7 in) high covered with tiny hairs.[5][7] Its stalked leaves are generally composed of three equal leaflets 15–45 millimetres (0.6–1.8 in) long, oval to elliptic in shape and pointed at the tip.[5][7] The plant produces abundant inflorescences at the ends of the stem branches much of the year.[7] The four sepals are fused about halfway from their base. Each flower has four bright yellow 8–14 millimetres (0.3–0.6 in) long petals, six protruding 15–25 millimetres (0.6–1.0 in) stamens with 2–2.5 millimetres (0.1–0.1 in) anthers.[5] The style is 0.9–1.2 millimetres (0.04–0.05 in) or aborts before flowering.[5] The fruit is a leathery prolate spheroid capsule 30–60 millimetres (1.2–2.4 in) long and 10–25 millimetres (0.4–1.0 in) wide on a 10–20 millimetres (0.4–0.8 in) stalk. It is smooth and green when new, aging to light brown.[5]

A typical inflorescence bears a number of flower buds at its tip, open flowers proximal to the buds, and maturing fruits which have shed their flowers below these.

In the previous genus name, Isomeris, "iso" means "equal", and "meris" means "part", referring to the stamens being of equal length.[10]

Ethnobotany

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Desirable parts of the plant chosen for consumption were flowers (pictured to the left) and the pea pods (pictured to the right).

Various parts of bladderpod have been used by many tribes indigenous to California and Baja California. The seeds and flowers were eaten by the Diegueño (former Spanish name for Kumeyaay) and Kawaiisu tribes.[11][12][13] The tribes would boil the gathered plants to remove any bitter taste.[12][13] The Kawaiisu tribe also prepared the flowers by cooking them in the dirt with hot rocks overnight until flowers turned red.[13] The Cahuilla tribes prepared the pods in a similar fashion as the Kawaiisu; they cooked the pods in the ground using hot stones.[14] The Kumeyaay preferred to consume the flowers of the plant rather than the leaves or pods.[15] After cooking, they ate the flowers alone or with other ingredients, commonly eaten alongside tortillas or acorn mush.[15]

The immature pea pods of the plant resemble garden peas and are edible small quantities; they may be used similarly to capers.[16] Cooking is recommended to remove the bitter characteristics of the plant which derive from glucocapparin.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ NatureServe (6 December 2024). "Cleome isomeris Bladderpod Spider-flower". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Cleomella arborea (Nutt.) Roalson & J.C.Hall". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  3. ^ Patchell, Melanie J.; Roalson, Eric H.; Hall, Jocelyn C. (1 April 2014). "Resolved phylogeny of Cleomaceae based on all three genomes". Taxon. 63 (2): 315–328. doi:10.12705/632.17.
  4. ^ Roalson, Eric H.; Hall, Jocelyn C.; Riser II, James P.; Cardinal-McTeague, Warren M.; Cochrane, Theodore S.; Sytsma, Kenneth J. (21 April 2015). "A revision of generic boundaries and nomenclature in the North American cleomoid clade (Cleomaceae)". Phytotaxa. 205 (3): 129. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.1. ISSN 1179-3163.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Preston, Robert E.; Vanderpool, Staria S. (2023). "Cleomella arborea". In Jepson Flora Project (ed.). Jepson eFlora. The Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  6. ^ NRCS (2018). "Cleome isomeris". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g MacKay, Pam (2013). Mojave Desert Wildflowers. Guilford, Connecticut: FalconGuides. p. 230. ISBN 978-0762780334.
  8. ^ Vanderpool, Staria S.; Iltis, Hugh H. (2010). "Peritoma arborea". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 July 2018 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  9. ^ a b Sullivan, Steven. K. (2018). "Peritoma arborea". Wildflower Search. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  10. ^ Torrey, J. & A. Gray. A flora of North America. 1838 [-1840]. volume 1.page 124.[1]
  11. ^ Smither-Kopperl, M. 2012. Plant Guide for bladderpod (Peritoma arborea). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Lockeford Plant Materials Center, Lockeford, CA 95237
  12. ^ a b Hinton, Leanne (1975). "Notes on La Huerta Diegueño Ethnobotany". The Journal of California Anthropology. 2 (2): 214–222. ISSN 0361-7181.
  13. ^ a b c Zigmond, Maurice L. (1981). Kawaiisu ethnobotany. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Pr. ISBN 978-0-87480-132-3.
  14. ^ Barrows, David Prescott (1900). The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California ... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.19178.
  15. ^ a b Wilken, Michael Alan (2012). An Ethnobotany of Baja California's Kumeyaay Indians (PDF). San Diego: San Diego State University. pp. 104–105.
  16. ^ a b "Bladderpod". onceuponawatershed. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  17. ^ Bell, Luke; Oloyede, Omobolanle O.; Lignou, Stella; Wagstaff, Carol; Methven, Lisa (26 March 2018). "Taste and Flavor Perceptions of Glucosinolates, Isothiocyanates, and Related Compounds". Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 62 (18). doi:10.1002/mnfr.201700990. ISSN 1613-4125.
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