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A plant has a butterfly shaped flower wi...

A plant has a butterfly shaped flower with one standerd,two wing like and two keel petals. The plants belongs to the family

A

Papilionaceae

B

Asteraceae

C

Malvaceae

D

Rubiaceae

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Papilionaceous (butterfly-shaped) corolla is the characteristic of Family Papilionaceae. The posterior largest petal is called standard or vexillum, overlaps two smaller lateral petal called wings or alae. The latter overlap a boat-shaped structure called keel or carina which is formed by two anterior petal fused laterally on the anterior side.
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