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BOTANY Higher Secondary Second Year - Textbooks Online

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Fruit<br />

Typically a legume. In Arachis hypogea, the fruits develop<br />

underground. After fertilization, the stipe of the ovary becomes meristematic<br />

and grows down into the soil. Thus the ovary gets buried into the soil and<br />

develops into fruit.<br />

Seed<br />

Non-endospermous and kidney shaped.<br />

Botanical description of Clitoria ternatea<br />

Habit<br />

Twining climber.<br />

Root<br />

Branched tap root system having nodules.<br />

Stem<br />

Aerial, weak stem and a twiner.<br />

Leaf<br />

Imparipinnately compound, alternate, stipulate showing reticulate<br />

venation. Leaflets are stipellate. Petiole and stipel are pulvinated.<br />

Inflorescence<br />

Axillary and solitary.<br />

Flower<br />

Bracteate, bracteolate, bracteoles usually large, pedicellate,<br />

dichlamydeous, complete, bisexual, pentamerous, zygomorphic and<br />

hypogynous.<br />

Calyx<br />

Sepals 5, green, gamosepalous showing valvate aestivation. Odd<br />

sepal is anterior in position.<br />

Corolla<br />

Petals 5, blue or white, polypetalous, irregular, papilionaceous corolla<br />

showing descendingly imbricate aestivation.<br />

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