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fetid passionflower, scarletfruit passionflower, stinking passionflower

pineland passionflower

Stems

terete when young, glabrous.

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.

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.

Berries

yellow to yellow-orange, ovoid, 30–50 × 25–35 mm.

Floral

bracts ovate, 10–20 × 9–12 mm, margins basally serrate to glandular-serrate basally.

Passiflora foetida

Passiflora pallens

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
from FNA
TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in tropical Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
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from FNA
FL; West Indies (Cuba, Hispaniola)
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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
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. bryonioides, P. caerulea, P. ciliata, P. filipes, P. foetida, P. incarnata, P. lutea, P. mexicana, P. multiflora, P. pallida, P. sexflora, P. tarminiana, P. tenuiloba
Subordinate taxa
P. foetida var. gossypiifolia
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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