Passiflora foetida |
Passiflora pallens |
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fetid passionflower, scarletfruit passionflower, stinking passionflower |
pineland passionflower |
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Stems | terete when young, glabrous. |
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Leaves | weakly to moderately pungent, glabrous; stipules subreniform, 10–20 × 5–14 mm, eglandular; petiole glandular, glands clavate; blade roughly symmetric, 1.5–6 × 2.5–9 cm, shallowly 3-lobed, middle lobe as long as or longer than lateral lobes, margins serrate basally; abaxial fine veins moderately raised, abaxial nectaries absent. |
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Flowers | floral tube cuplike, 3–5 mm deep; sepals white, 30–35 × 7–12 mm; petals white, 20–30 × 6–10 mm; corona filament whorls 4, outer filaments green basally, white apically, with alternating lines of purple, linear, terete, 7–15 mm. |
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Berries | yellow to yellow-orange, ovoid, 30–50 × 25–35 mm. |
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Floral | bracts ovate, 10–20 × 9–12 mm, margins basally serrate to glandular-serrate basally. |
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Passiflora foetida |
Passiflora pallens |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Dec. | |
Habitat | Margins of and sunny gaps within mesic to wet tropical to subtropical woodlands | |
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) | |
Distribution |
TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in tropical Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
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FL; West Indies (Cuba, Hispaniola) |
Discussion | Varieties ca. 30 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Leaf and stipule variegation, although rare within subg. Passiflora, is occasionally found in Passiflora pallens, and may serve to camouflage plants from predators in the dappled shade of their habitats. Listed as endangered in Florida, in the flora area it is found only in the southernmost part of the state. (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 |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 959. (1753) | Poeppig ex Masters: in C. F. P. von Martius et al., Fl. Bras. 13(1): 567, plate 128, fig. 4. (1872) |
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