Flora of North America species comparison

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Passiflora foetida

Passiflora bryonioides

fetid passionflower, scarletfruit passionflower, stinking passionflower

cupped passionflower
Stems

terete, uncinate-hairy.
Leaves

not pungent, uncinate-hairy;

stipules ovate-lanceolate, falcate, 2–7 × 1–4 mm, margins entire, eglandular;

petiole glandular, glands clavate;

blade roughly symmetric, 2–7(–10) × 2–7(–11) cm, deeply (3–)5–7(–9)-lobed, middle lobe as long as or longer than lateral lobes, margins serrate;

abaxial fine veins prominently raised, abaxial nectaries absent or sometimes present along lateral veins.
Flowers

floral tube cuplike, 1–2 mm deep;

sepals white, 15–20 × 5–8 mm;

petals white, 8–11 × 2–3 mm;

corona filament whorls 1, filaments purple basally, yellow-white apically, linear, terete, sometimes clavate, 5–11 mm.
Berries

green to green-white, ovoid-fusiform, 35–45 × 20–25 mm.
Floral

bracts linear-subulate, 2–7 × 0.5 mm, margins entire, eglandular.
2n

= 12.

Passiflora foetida

Passiflora bryonioides
Phenology Flowering May–Sep.
Habitat Semidesert grasslands, oak savannas
Elevation 1000–1300 m (3300–4300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in tropical Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
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from FNA
AZ; Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties ca. 30 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

J. M. Coulter (1890, 1891) reported Passiflora bryonioides (as the synonym P. inamoena A. Gray) from Hidalgo, Texas; that specimen may now be lost or it may have been misidentified. The nearest to southernmost Texas this species is confirmed to occur is about 500 km to the southwest (J. M. MacDougal 1994).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 178. FNA vol. 6, p. 180.
Parent taxa Passifloraceae > Passiflora Passifloraceae > Passiflora
Sibling taxa
P. affinis, P. arida, P. arizonica, P. biflora, P. bryonioides, P. caerulea, P. ciliata, P. filipes, P. incarnata, P. lutea, P. mexicana, P. multiflora, P. pallens, P. pallida, P. sexflora, P. tarminiana, P. tenuiloba
P. affinis, P. arida, P. arizonica, P. biflora, P. caerulea, P. ciliata, P. filipes, P. foetida, P. incarnata, P. lutea, P. mexicana, P. multiflora, P. pallens, P. pallida, P. sexflora, P. tarminiana, P. tenuiloba
Subordinate taxa
P. foetida var. gossypiifolia
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 959. (1753) Kunth: in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp. 2(fol.): 111
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