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greenish, pink, purplish red or blue, pink flowers fading to blue with age, standard
(largest petal), 1 to 1.5 cm long, broad and clawed, wings free, keel incurved; stamens
10; pods, 1.5 to 3 cm long and 1 to 2 cm across, 1- to 2-seeded, oblong, swollen, beak
obliquely placed, sometimes sterile; seeds, 0.5 by 1 cm in diameter, angular, oblong-
obovoid, with pointed beak and small hilum, testa smooth, wrinkled or rough, ranging in
color from white, yellow, red, brown to nearly black. Common food and fodder legume
reported in 1935 to have been introduced, but not seen in 1978 or thereafter.
Clitorea ternatea L. "butterfly pea"
Recent introduction. Trop. America or Pantropical. Fast growing perennial
climbing or sprawling herb with slender stems, up to 3 m long, and a woody rootstalk,
young growth somewhat pubescent; leaves, alternate, compound, odd-pinnate, with 5 to 9
leaflets, one terminal; leaflets, 2 to 7 cm long and 1.5 to 4 cm wide, oblong to elliptic,
obtuse, base acutish, apressed-pilose but subglabrate on both sides; petiolules, about 2
mm long; stipules, short linear; flowers, mostly solitary, sometimes paired in leaf axils
on pedicels about as long as petioles; calyx, about 1.5 to 2 cm long, longish-tubular
subtended by 2 conspicuous basal bracteoles and lobes about half as long as tube; petals
large, up to 4 by 5 cm, the standard the largest, other petals very small; standard, erect,
half-tubular, wavy-margined, bright vivid blue to violet with a pale yellow or white
proximal blotch, finely puberulent dorsally, wings much shorter, also blue with pale basal
parts; pods, 8 to 12 cm long awns 0.8 to 1 cm wide, linear-oblong, compressed, 2-
valved, sharp-beaked, thick-margined and slightly broad-margined distally, apressed-
pilose but subglabrate, dehiscent; seeds, 5 to 10, up to 8 by 4 by 2.5 mm, ellipsoid or
subglobose, compressed, greenish to pale or dark brown with darker mottling, hilum
small. Occasional. Planted ornamental. 3(58778), 5(7 I), 6(246), 7.
Crotalaria goreensis Guitl. & Pers. " rattlepod"
Recent introduction. W. Africa. Common. Erect subshrub, 50 cm to 1 m tall,
branching below; leaves, alternate, long-petiolate, trifoliate; petioles, 2 to 4 cm long;
stipules foliaceous, trifoliate, similar to, but smaller than leaflets, stipular leaflets, 3 to 8
mm long and 1 to 3 lnrn wide, stipular petiolules 3 to 8 mm long; leaflets, 1 to 4 cm
long and 4 to 8 lnln wide, the terminal leaf longest, narrowly elliptic, acute, obovate or
slightly mucronate, base acute, light gray-green, glabrous; inflorescence, a leaf opposed
peduncle, 3 to 7 cm long, bearing solitary flowers, pedicels about 1 to 2 mm long; calyx
funnelform, about 2 mm long; corolla, yellow; pods, 1 to 1.8 cm long, 2-valved, oblong,
inflated, beaked, dehiscent; seeds, small, about 3 mm long, club- or kidney-shaped, dark
brown. Widespread weed of waste places, roadsides and other ruderal sites on coastal
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