Cleoserrata

Neto, Raimundo Luciano Soares, Barbosa, Maria Regina De Vasconcellos & Roalson, Eric H., 2017, Cleoserrata (Cleomaceae): taxonomic considerations and a new species, Phytotaxa 324 (2), pp. 179-186 : 180

Key to the species of Cleoserrata

1 Flowers without bracts or with bracts diminutive, hirsute, hyaline...................................................................................................2

1’ ‒ Flowers with foliaceous bracts, green................................................................................................................................................4

2 Stipules diminutive, hirsute, hyaline; fruits linear-cylindrical...........................................................................................................3

2’ ‒ Stipules absent; fruit ellipsoid ............................................................................................................................ Cleoserrata bahiana

3 Leaflets lanceolate to ovate, wide, 1 ‒ 6 cm wide, rarely narrow. Petals 8 ‒ 15 mm long. Capsules sessile or with gynophore 4 ‒ 10 mm long; seed opening cleft membrane smooth and shiny, without inflated cells and diminutive; Mexico and West Indies to Colombia and Guyana........................................................................................................................................................... Cleoserrata serrata

3’ ‒ Leaflets linear-elliptic to lanceolate, narrow, 0.5 ‒ 2.5 cm wide. Petals 12 ‒ 25 mm long. Capsules long-stipitate, gynophore (5 ‒) 12 ‒ 53 mm long; seed opening cleft membrane opaque, covered by bulliform cells, densely aggregated, diminutive and spread around the testa; Guyana, Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina......................................................................... Cleoserrata paludosa

4 Plants sparsely pubescent-glandulous or glabrous; leaves 3-foliolate; stipules diminutive, hyaline; mature capsule ellipsoid or fusiform, generally narrowly attenuated at apex, wider at base............................................................... Cleoserrata melanosperma

4’ ‒ Plants sparsely pilose, puberulous-glandulous or glabrous; leaves 5 ‒ 7 (rarely ‒ 9)-foliolate; stipules absent; mature capsule linear-cylindrical or oblong-cylindrical, attenuated to sharp at both extremities ......................................................... Cleoserrata speciosa