Plant Species |
Common Name |
Clade |
Family |
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Tarenaya hassleriana | Spider plant | Angiosperms | Cleomaceae |
Description | ||
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Cleome hassleriana, commonly known as spider flower, spider plant, or pink queen, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cleome of the family Cleomaceae, native to southern South America in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southeast Brazil. It is an annual growing to a height of 150 cm (60 in), with spirally arranged leaves. The leaves are palmately compound, with five or seven leaflets, the leaflets up to 12 cm (5 in) long and 4 cm (2 in) broad and the leaf petiole up to 15 cm (6 in) long. The flowers are purple, pink, or white, with four petals and six long stamens. The fruit is a capsule up to 15 cm long and 3 mm (0.1 in) broad, containing several seeds. Flowering lasts from late spring to early fall |
Terpene synthase C terminal domain sequence |
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Terpene synthase N terminal domain sequence |
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Terpene synthase UniProtKB Sequences entries |
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