Clitoria annua J.Graham

, Cat. Pl. Bombay [Graham] 47 (1839). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20008486-1
Publication
A Catalogue of the Plants Growing in Bombay and its vicinity; spontaneous, cultivated or introduced, as far as they have been ascertained. Bombay
Collation
47
Family as entered in IPNI
Leguminosae

Type Information

Locality
Malabar Hill, etc.
Distribution Of Types
Maharashtra (India, Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)

Remarks

Graham treated 4 Clitoria species of which 3 species (C. brasiliana, C. ternata & C. vaupellii) are shrubs or undershrubs. For his C. annua Graham provided a diagnosis (Herbaceous, annual ...) and thus distinguished it from the other 3 Clitoria species.