Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXIII, Number 4, October 2016 News and Notes | Germane Literature | Season's Pick SEASON'S PICK: Cleome speciosa Raf., AKA Cleoserrata speciosa (Raf.) Iltis (Cleomaceae), gets the nod for spectacularly flowering during this rainiest time of the year. Mind you, we use the former name tentatively and with much hope that our contributor of this family, co-conspirator Nelson Zamora, will buck the premature and in any case unnecessary splitting trend and use a broadly circumscribed Cleome.  Confessing certain ignorance, we use even the specific epithet for this widely cultivated and often-escaped sp. with trepidation. These pictures (and more), taken by Manual co-PI Barry Hammel and mostly at his house in Heredia, are vouchered by Hammel 27177.  This annual is self-seeding, and the fallen seeds germinate every year in the same spot during the rainy season, comming to fullest flower in October.  Praise be to all things bright during this dreary season!   TOP