CHR 499303 – Clitoria ternatea L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 499303
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
30 January 1995
Database record updated:
04 February 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Clitoria ternatea L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-08-22 (Verbatim: 22 Aug 1993)
Preferred name:
Clitoria ternatea L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Near Nikao, by airport
Verbatim locality:
Near Nikao, by airport
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4610/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
22 Aug 1993
Start date:
1993-08-22
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Rarotonga
Habitat:
Roadside scrub and long grass.
Notes:
Low vine, scrambling amongst adventive scrub. Leaflets thin, pale beneath. A small patch 10-20 m diameter. Flowers mainly in 2's, resupinate. Corolla 5-5.5 x 5.5-6 cm (i.e. standard), deep blue with white towards base and in central band of all? petals. Standard suborbicular. Wings c. 5.5 x 4 cm. Keel c. 4 cm long, rolled. The whole fower is dorso-ventrally flattened. Not seen elsewhere.
Observed species:
Brachiaria mutica
Indigofera suffruticosa
Leucaena leucocephala
Indigofera suffruticosa
Leucaena leucocephala
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