Clitoria
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Twining herbaceous or woody vines, trees, or shrubs. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate or imparipinnate; leaflets 3-9, opposite; stipels present; stipules minute, persistent. Flowers solitary or grouped in axillary racemes; bracteoles appressed to the calyx, persistent. Calyx campanulate, with 5 equal or almost equal lobes; corolla blue-violet, white, yellow, or red, the standard rounded, rugose, longer than the wings and the keel, the wings longer than the keel; stamens 10, diadelphous or monadelphous; ovary superior, stipitate, the style curved, pubescent, the stigma truncate. Fruit a linear or oblong legume. flattened, dehiscent along both sutures, not septate between the seeds: seeds few, rounded to oblong. A genus of about 60 species, the great majority of tropical to subtropical distribution.