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5.Morphology of Flowering Plants
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A plant has a butterfly-shaped flower with one standard, two wing like and two keel petals. To which family, this plant belongs?

A

Malvaceae

B

Papilionaceae

C

Rubiaceae

D

Compositae

(AIIMS-2018)

Solution

The given plant belongs to the family Papilionaceae. Characters of this family include corolla papilionaceous, petals $5,$ posterior odd petals is called standard, two lateral ones fused to form a keel or carina.

Standard 11
Biology

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