Genera: Buhsia, Cleome, Cleomella, Gynandropsis, Haptocarpum, Oxystylis, Physostemon, Polanisia, Wislizenia.
Botany: herbs; flowers 4 merous; curved embryo; endosperm ± lacking; vestured pits in vessels; gynophore long; stamens long; 2 carpels; vacuolar and utricular cysternae of endoplasmatic reticulum; fruit with rim.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Cleomaceae is a
Family in the Order
Brassicales.
Cleomaceae is sometimes included in
Brassicaceae and in the past in Capparidaceae.
In the
Plant theory Capparidaceae is treated in the same way and placed in
Subphase 5.