''Cleome oxalidea'' is a species of plant in the

Cleomaceae The Cleomaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, comprising about 300 species in 10 genera, or about 150 species in 17 genera.Cleomaceae, Zhang Mingli (张明理)1; Gordon C. Tucker2, Harvard.edu/ref> These genera ...

family and is found in Western Australia. The annual or ephemeral herb has a rosetted habit and typically grows to a height of . It blooms between January and September producing blue-pink-purple flowers. It is found in the Kimberley,

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, Goldfields-Esperance and

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regions of Western Australia growing in stony sandy-loam alluvium. The species uses photosynthesis. The pathway in this species evolved independently from the two other ''Cleome'' species, '' C. angustifolia'' and '' C. gynandra''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15518069 oxalidea Plants described in 1859 Flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller