Family: Bignoniaceae

Common Name: Garlic vine

Etymology - Genus: For the Brazilian botanist Antonio Luiz Patricio da Silva Manso

Etymology - Species: Like Allium (onion genus)

Ecosystem: Evergreen

Origin: Foreign

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Description: Spreading garden vine.Characteristic bifoliate leaf with tendril opposite to the leaf.Fresh green glabrous leaf.Flower appear in a group at leaf axle.Violet flower appear in a cluster. Flowers smells like garlic, hence the name garlic vine.Didynamous stamen and two carpels, typical family character.Pods are flat, long and slender.Pod has many seeds with white transparent feathers.

Root type: Taproot

Stem Appearance: Vine

Stem Cross Section: Circular

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Root-Stem-Bark Description: Spreading garden vine.

Leaf - Characters

Attachment: Petiolate

Stipules: Tendrillar

Leaf Type: Bifoliate

Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral

Leaf Description: Characteristic bifoliate leaf with tendril opposite to the leaf.

Leaflet - Characters

Lamina: Elliptic

Lamina Bases: Cuneate

Lamina Margins: Entire

Lamina Apices: Acute

Lamina Texture: Glabrous

Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate

Leaflet Description: Fresh green glabrous leaf.

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Fruit type Description: Pods are flat, long and slender.

Seed Type: Dicotyledon

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Seed Description: Pod has many seeds with white transparent feathers.