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Clitoria irwinii Fantz is a new species from the Brazilian Planalto assigned to subg.Neurocarpum (Desv.) Baker sect.Neurocarpum because of the diagnostic costate legume and other features characteristic of this section. It has close affinities withC. densiflora (Benth.) Benth. andC. stipularis Benth.
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Fantz, Paul R. 1977. A monograph of the genusClitoria (Leguminosae: Glycineae). 1066 pp. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Florida.
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Studies accomplished and supported through the IFAS Herbarium, Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. 1328.
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Fantz, P.R. A new species of Clitoria subgenus Neurocarpum section Neurocarpum (Leguminosae) from Brazil. Brittonia 32, 376–379 (1980). https://doi.org/10.2307/2806738
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