Jacquemontia coerulea (Schum. & Thonn.) Choisy ex G. Don

 
  • Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
    (Morning-Glory Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KALADANA FAMILY (कालादाना फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : CONVOLVULACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Jacquemontia ovalifolia (Choisy) Hallier f.
  • Habit : Climber
  • Comments / notes : Cultivated in gardens
  • Key identification features : Twining herbs; stems slender, narrowly winged, glabrous. Leaves glabrous on both the surfaces. Flowers in axillary, long peduncled, 5-9 flowered cymes; sepals ovate-lanceolate, glabrous; corolla blue with pale mid petaline bands, shortly funnel shaped
  • Flower, Fruit : September-December
  • Native : South America
  • Literature : N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. pp.486. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Jacquemontia coerulea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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