Family: Fabaceae

Common Name: राजमा

Etymology - Genus: Small boat, referring to the pods; Latin name for bean

Etymology - Species: Common

Ecosystem: Annual

Origin: Native

Location: Garden plant

Description: Seasonal plant, twiner about 2-3 meter long. Young branches are rough, so as to attach itself to any available support.Trifoliate leaf with two filiform stipules and long grooved petiole.Terminal leaflet - rhombic, two lateral leaflets asymmetric, with oblique base. Presence of stipels (secondary stipules) on rachis.White colour flower appear in a group.Flower with Papilionaceous corolla with standard, wings and keel (two front petals, united to form a boat-shaped structure). Diadelphous stamen - 9 stamens together in a bundle and one stamen free.Flat long pods with 4-5 seeds.White seeds with brown patches. Grows well in a terrace garden.

Root type: Adventitious

Stem Appearance: Twiner

Stem Cross Section: Circular

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Root-Stem-Bark Description: Seasonal plant, twiner about 2-3 meter long. Young branches are rough, so as to attach itself to any available support.

Leaf - Characters

Attachment: Petiolate-Pulvinus

Stipules: Stipulate

Leaf Type: Trifoliolate

Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral

Leaf Description: Trifoliate leaf with two filiform stipules and long grooved petiole.

Leaflet - Characters

Lamina: Rhombic

Lamina Bases: Obtuse

Lamina Margins: Entire

Lamina Apices: Acute

Lamina Texture: Glabrous

Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate

Leaflet Description: Terminal leaflet - rhombic, two lateral leaflets asymmetric, with oblique base. Presence of stipels (secondary stipules) on rachis.

Fruit type: Legume

Fruit type Description: Flat long pods with 4-5 seeds.

Seed Type: Dicotyledon

Germination type: Epigeal

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Seed Description: White seeds with brown patches. Grows well in a terrace garden.