STANDARD Botany Floral Characteristics MCQ Question
Keel is the characteristic feature of flower of
Aloe
tomato
tulip
Indigofera
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The flowers of Family Papilionaceae have butterfly shaped corolla (papilionaceous corolla). Posterior or outermost petal is the largest and is called standard or vexillum, two lateral petals are similar and generally clawed, are called wings or alae and the two anterior petals called keel are fused enclosing stamens and carpels. This type of petal arrangement is found in bean, gram, pea, Indigofera, etc.
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