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Botanical Name: Mansoa alliacea
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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
Location:
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
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Spreading garden vine.
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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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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence:
Bract:
Inflorescence Description: Flower appear in a group at leaf axle.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Imbricate
Flower Description: Violet flower appear in a cluster. Flowers smells like garlic, hence the name garlic vine.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: Campanulate
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament: Didynamous
Androecium Union of Stamens: Epipetalous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 4
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Syncarpous
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 2
Floral Parts Description: Didynamous stamen and two carpels, typical family character.
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Fruit type:
Fruit type Description: Pods are flat, long and slender.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
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Seed Description: Pod has many seeds with white transparent feathers.
