Question
Explain Clitoria ternatea in botanical terms. Draw floral diagram.
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Answer
- Habit: Twining climber
- Root: Branched tap root system having nodules.
- Stem: Aerial, weak stem and a twiner.
- Leaf: Imparipinnately compound, alternate, stipulate showing reticulate venation. Leaflets are stipellate.
Petiolate and stipels are pulvinated. - Inflorescence: Solitary and axillary
- Flower: Bracteate, bracteolate, bracteoles usually large, pedicellate, heterochlamydeous, complete, bisexual, pentamerous, zygomorphic and hypogynous.
- Calyx: Sepals 5, synsepalous, green showing valvate aestivation. Odd repel is anterior in position.
- Corolla: Petals 5, white or blue apopetalous, irregular papilionaceous corolla showing, descendingly imbricate aestivation.
- Androecium: Stamens 10, diadelphous (9) + 1 nine stamens fused to form a bundle and the tenth stamen is free. Anthers are dithecous, basifixed, introse and dechising by longitudinal slits.
- Gynoecium: Monocarpellary, uni – locular, with many ovules on marginal placentation, ovary superior, style simple and incurved with feathery stigma.
- Fruit: Legume
- Seed: Non – endospermous, reniform.
- Floral Formula
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