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Clitoria javitensis
Clitoria javitensis
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Kunth) Bentham
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Costa Rica
- Panama
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Amazonas
- Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
- French Guiana
- Trinidad
- Windward Islands
- Guyana
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Moist forest
- shrubland
- rain forest
- floodplain forest
- forest
- riverside
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- May
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Woody high-climbing slender twining liana, prostrate glabrous vine or tree with villous stems . Trifoliate leaves, coriaceous leaflets glabrous above pilose beneath, leaflets to 200mm x 100. Axillary many-flowered racemes of up to 5 flowers to 70mm long usually on old wood, with bractlets 4mm long. PIlose calyx with tube to 15mm long & teeth to 7mm long, pale pink, red to white or violet flowers with darker lines, pubescent standard to 50mm long. Coriaceous glabrous legume to 200mm x 20mm.
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- FOPE
- G
- eason & Moldenke
- Standley
- NYBG