Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Bean
❏ Binomial Name : Clitoria ternatea L.
❏ Synonym : Clitoria albiflora,Lathyrus spectabilis,Ternatea vulgaris
❏ Family : Leguminosae
❏ Common Name : Butterfly Bean
❏ Tamil Name : Sanghupushpam, Kannikkodi
❏ Hindi Name : Shankhapushpi
❏ IUCN Status : Not Evaluated
Clitoria ternatea Botanical Description
Herbs. Stems twining, slender, densely deciduous adpressed shortly villous. Leaves 2.5-5 cm, pinnately 5-7-foliolate, usually 5-foliolate; stipules small, linear, 2-5 mm; petiole 1.5-3 cm; stipels small, bristlelike; petiolules 1-2 mm; leaflets broadly elliptic or almost ovate, 2.5-5 × 1.5-3.5 cm, thinly papery or almost membranous, adpressed shortly villous or sometimes glabrous on both surfaces, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base obtuse, apex obtuse, slightly emarginate, usually with mucro. Flowers large, solitary in axil; bracteoles green, small, suborbicular or obovate, membranous, with obvious reticulate veins. Calyx membranous, 1.5-2 cm, 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate, less than 1/2 of tube, apex acuminate. Corolla sky blue, pink, or white, to 5.5 cm; standard faintly white or orange in middle, broadly obovate, ca. 3 cm, base shortly clawed; wings and keels much shorter than standard, both clawed; wings obovate-oblong; keels elliptic. Ovary villous. Legume brown, linear-oblong, 5-11 × 0.7-1 cm, compressed, with long beak. Seeds 6-10, black, oblong, ca. 0.6 × 0.4 cm, with obvious strophiole. Fl. and fr. Jun-Nov. Fl. &Fr.: throughout the year.
Clitoria ternatea Medicinal uses
❀ The herb reduces cholesterol and hypertension.
❀ Whole plant used for treatment of hypertension, neurodegenerative diseases, ulcers, high blood pressure, epilepsy, vomiting, diabetes, sun stroke and bleeding.
❀ The root extracts of this herb are used for eye, throat infections, ulcer and urinary infections.
❀ The root extract of this herb is used as nasal drop for Migraine relief.
❀ The juice of whole plant prevents excessive menstruation.The plant extract of this herb avoids fluid retention in the body and supports digestion.
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