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.
