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Clitoria falcata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Minas Gerais
• Goiás
• Pará
• Amazonas
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal scrub forest
• disturbed areas
• forest
• montane forest
• wet forest
• forest edge
• wooded savanna
• swamp forest
• fences
• pastures

Flowering Times

• Sep-Jan (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Jan (Puerto Rico)

Hairy herbaceous slightly woody twining or trailing pilose herbaceous vine, young stems becoming glabrate, perennial rhizome. Trifoliolate leaves, glabrous above, sericeous beneath, leaflets to 90mm x 50mm. Axillary solitary or few-flowered racemes or cymes with bracts 5mm long & bractlets 8mm long, 50mm yellow or white flowers with red veins or white with violet-veined throat, calyx to 20mm long with teeth to 10mm long, standard 60mm long with violet or red lines in centre, pilose outside, wings & keel 20mm long. Pubescent glabrate falcate legume 60mm long x 11mm.

Further References

• Neotrop
• Mobot
• FB
• FOC
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Standley
• JAA
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• SAFIO