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|accepted_name=Torenia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 619. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Wishbone flower;bluewings
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Linderniaceae;Torenia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Linderniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Torenia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Olaf Toren, 1718–1753, Swedish clergyman and naturalist with Swedish East India Company
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 6, 353
|treatment_page=page 357
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials]. <b>Stems</b> erect, sometimes prostrate, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite; petiole present; blade not leathery, margins serrate [crenate]. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemelike; bracts present. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, connate 1/2+ length, calyx bilaterally to radially symmetric, ellipsoid, winged, lobes triangular-ovate; petals 5, corolla usually white, violet, purple, or blue [red, pink, or yellow], bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate, campanulate, tube 21–36(–40) mm, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2, connate, forming erect to spreading adaxial lip; stamens 4, didynamous, abaxial filaments glabrous, appendage absent [present], adaxial filaments glabrous, appendage absent; staminode 0. <b>Capsules</b>: dehiscence initially poricidal, later loculicidal and septicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 250–400, white to gold, cylindric. <b>x</b> = [8]9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>In addition to the two widely cultivated taxa, <i>Torenia fournieri</i> and <i>T. fournieri</i> × T. concolor Lindley, T. thouarsii (Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Kuntze is found as a weedy species introduced in Central America and South America.</p>
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name=Torenia
|author=Deborah Q. Lewis
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Linderniaceae
|distribution=Asia;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Europe;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Torenia
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