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Clitoria mariana var. pubescentia
Photo is of parent taxon
Leaflet

blades: abaxial surface moderately to densely piloso-sericeous, macrotrichomes conspicuous, not widely scattered or confined to veins, adaxial surface glabrate, trichomes inconspicuous, microuncinate, whitish macrotrichomes, trichomes scattered, falcate to subappressed, 0.3–1 mm.
Calyces

uncinate-pubescent or glabrate, macrotrichomes moderately dense to scattered.
2n

= 16.

Clitoria mariana var. pubescentia
Phenology Flowering (chasmogamous) May–Jul(–Sep), (cleis­togamous) mid Jul–Nov; fruiting (chasmogamous) (May–)Jun–Nov, (cleistogamous) mid Jul–Nov.
Habitat Dry, sandy soils in open areas of pine, pine-oak, oak-hickory associations.
Elevation 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL
Discussion

Variety pubescentia is known from central and southern Florida. The variety is commonly found south of an imaginary line drawn across north-central Florida (Cedar Key to Ponte Verda Beach).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Clitoria > Clitoria mariana
Sibling taxa
C. mariana var. mariana
Name authority Fantz: Sida 16: 727. (1995)
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