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Give the floral characters of Clitoria ternatea.

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Floral characters of Clitoria ternatea :
1. Inflorescence: Solitary and axillary.
2. Flower: Bracteate, bracteolate, bracteoles usually large, pedicellate, heterochlamydeous, , complete, bisexual, pentamerous, zygomorphic and hpogynous.
Calyx : Sepals 5, synsepalous, green showing valvate aestivation. Odd sepal is anterior in position.
4. Corolla : Petals 5, white or blue apopetalous irregular papilionaceous corolla showing , descendingly imbricate aestivation.

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Androecium: Stamens 10, diadelphous (9) + l nine stamens fused to form a bundle and the tenth stamen is free. Anthers are dithecous, basifixed, introse and dechiscing by longituding slits.
6. Gynoecium: Monocarpellary, unilocular, with many ovules on mariginal placentation, ovary superior, style simple and incurved with feathery stigma.
7. Fruit: Legume
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