Clitoria ternatea L.

Scientific Names

Clitoria ternatea L.

Region name

Malay: blue flowers

Sunda: Flower telang

Java: Flower pupil

Napier: Flowers gutters

Bugis: Flowers temen raleng

Halmahera: Bisi

Ternate: Sejamagulele

classification

Division: Spermatophyta

Sub Division: Angiospermae

Class: Dicotyledoneae

Nation: Resales

Tribe: Papilionaceae

Marga: Clitoria

Type: Clitoria ternatea L.

The characteristics

Habitus: bush, creeper, the length of 3-5 m.

Trunk: twisted, massive, grooved surfaces, green.

Leaves: Compound, pinnate, oval, flat edge, tip blunt, base tapering, 4-9 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, cylindrical stalk, 4-8 cm long, pinnate pertulangan, surface hairy, green.

Interest: Compound, a cluster, in the armpit leaves, stems cylindrical, length + 1.5 cm, green, petals form a funnel, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, yellowish green, stalk berlekatan stamens form a tube, white, head sari round, yellow, cylindrical stalk pistil, the stigma round, green, crown shape of butterflies, purple.

Fruit: pod, 7-14 cm long, short-stemmed, green when young black parents.

Beans: kidney shape, the young green after dark chocolate.

Roots: riding, dirty white.

Chemical Ingredients

Telang flower leaf contains saponins and polyphenols.

property

Flower leaves telang efficacious as a medicine drug ulcers and sore eyes.

For the ulcer drug use ± 10 grams of leaf flower telang, washed and finely ground, mixed with a little brown sugar, placed on the swelling or ulcers, and wrapped with a clean cloth.