Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

Paul R. Fantz ¹, S. V. Pradeep ¹

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1 North Carolina State University, US

Abstract

A key and taxonomic treatment is provided for the ten species of Clitoria known from South-eastern Asia, Pakistan to Malaysia. Native species include C. annua, C. cordiformis, C. hanceana, C. javanica, C. linearis, C. mariana and C. macrophylla. The most commonly collected species, C. ternatea, is both cultivated and naturalized. Species known only from cultivation include C. fairchildiana and C. laurifolia. Excluded species, all reported from India, include C. arborescens, C. heterophylla, C. vaupelli and C. virginianum.

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