Clitoria
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Woody vines, or erect or climbing herbs, with pinnately 3-foliolate or sometimes 5-9-foliolate leaves, persistent stipule-, and large axillary flowers. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, the upper teeth more or less united; standard large, erect, refuse, narrowed at the base, not spurred; wings oblong, curved; keel acute, shorter than the wings; stamens more or less monadelphous; anthers all alike; ovary stipitate; style elongated, incurved, hairy along the inner side; pod stalked in the calyx, linear or linear-oblong, flattened, 2-valved, partly septate between the seeds. About 30 species, natives of warm and temperate regions. Type species: Clitoria Ternatca L.