Cleome oxalidea

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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Cleome oxalidea is a species of plant in the Cleomaceae family and is found in Western Australia.{{FloraBase|name=Cleome oxalidea|id=2985}}

The annual or ephemeral herb has a rosetted habit and typically grows to a height of {{convert|5|to|30|cm|in|1}}. It blooms between January and September producing blue-pink-purple flowers.

It is found in the Kimberley, Pilbara, Goldfields-Esperance and Mid West regions of Western Australia growing in stony sandy-loam alluvium.

The species uses {{C4}} photosynthesis. The {{C4}} pathway in this species evolved independently from the two other {{C4}} Cleome species, C. angustifolia and C. gynandra.{{cite journal |last1=Feodorova |first1=T.A. |last2=Voznesenskaya |first2=E.V. |last3=Edwards |first3=G.E. |last4=Roalson |first4=E.H. |title=Biogeographic patterns of diversification and the origins of {{C4}} in Cleome (Cleomaceae) |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=35 |issue=4 |year=2010 |pages=811–826 |issn=03636445 |doi=10.1600/036364410X539880 |s2cid=84983697 |url=http://msu-botany.ru/gallery/feodorova-5-&2010.pdf |accessdate=16 June 2016}}