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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Tarenaya spinosa
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sylva Tellur.,
|place=111. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Espuela de caballero
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cleome spinosa
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=species
|publication_title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|publication_place=26. 1760
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleome pubescens
|authority=Sims
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleome pungens
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cleome tonduzii
|authority=Briquet
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Neocleome spinosa
|authority=(Jacquin) Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cleomaceae;Tarenaya;Tarenaya spinosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cleomaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tarenaya]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tarenaya spinosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 219
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>[perennial], 50–200 cm. <b>Stems</b> sparsely to profusely branched; glandular-pubescent (spiny). <b>Leaves</b>: stipular spines 2–5 mm; petiole 2.5–10 cm, glandular-pubescent, with scattered, antrorse spines 1–3 mm; leaflets (3) 5 or 7, blade lanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4–10(–12) × 1–3 cm, margins serrulate-denticulate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glandular-pubescent abaxially, glandular adaxially. <b>Racemes</b> 1–20 cm (10–40 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, ovate to broadly elliptic, 8–25 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 15–30 mm, glandular-pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals green, lanceolate, 6–8 × 0.8–1.3 mm, glandular-pubescent; petals white or greenish white (somewhat reddish abaxially), oblong to ovate, 11–21(–30) × 8–12 mm, (± glandular-pubescent especially apically); stamens white, 20–50 mm; anthers 9–10 mm; gynophore 45–70 mm in fruit; ovary 6–10 mm, ± glandular-pubescent; style 0.1 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 40–110(–150) × 3–5 mm, ± glandular-pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> 20–30, 1.8–2.2 × 1.9–2.1 mm, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Disturbed roadsides, beaches, vacant lots, waste areas
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Pa.;W.Va.;South America;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|introduced=true
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tarenaya spinosa
|authority=(Jacquin) Rafinesque
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cleome pubescens;Cleome pungens;Cleome tonduzii;Neocleome spinosa
|basionyms=Cleome spinosa
|family=Cleomaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Disturbed roadsides, beaches, vacant lots, waste areas
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Pa.;W.Va.;South America;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sylva Tellur.,
|publication year=1838
|special status=
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|genus=Tarenaya
|species=Tarenaya spinosa
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