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Clitoria arborescens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

R. Brown

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• St Vincent
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Twining tomentose liana, erect or scandent shrub to 5m or tree, velvety stems. 3 leaflets glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Few-flowered racemes of red or pink or purplish flowers 70mm long. Glabrous or tomentose legume to 120mm long x 12mm

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• Standley
• APDC
• Kew