Flora of North America species comparison

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Passiflora foetida

Passiflora sexflora

fetid passionflower, scarletfruit passionflower, stinking passionflower

goatsfoot
Stems

terete to slightly flattened, densely soft-hairy.
Leaves

not pungent, densely soft-hairy;

stipules linear-setaceous, 2–5 × 0.5 mm, eglandular;

petiole eglandular;

blade roughly symmetric, 2–10 × 2–15 cm, 2–3-lobed, middle lobe shorter than lateral lobes, lobes unlobed, margins entire;

abaxial fine veins prominently raised but obscured by pubescence, abaxial nectaries absent.
Flowers

floral tube absent;

sepals greenish white, 9–13 × 2–3 mm;

petals white, 5–9 × 1–2 mm;

corona filament whorls 2, outer filaments purple basally, white apically, linear-filiform, terete, 5–9 mm.
Berries

blue-black, ovoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose to dorsiventrally compressed, 5–10 × 5–8 mm.
Floral

bracts linear-subulate to setaceous, 2–6 × 0.5–1 mm, margins entire or incised, eglandular.

Passiflora foetida

Passiflora sexflora
Phenology Flowering Oct–Mar.
Habitat Margins of, and sunny gaps within mesic, tropical woodlands over oölitic limestone
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; Mexico; Central America; West Indies (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico); South America (Colombia, Ecuador)
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Discussion

Varieties ca. 30 (1 in the flora).

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

Found in the flora area only in extreme southeastern Florida, Passiflora sexflora responds vigorously to moderate disturbance of its forested habitats, with rapid seed germination and plant growth in treefalls or other canopy openings (J. Blakley, pers. comm.). There have been successful attempts at reintroducing it into the wild in Florida (J. Possley et al. 2007), where it is listed as endangered.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 178. FNA vol. 6, p. 175.
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. pallens, P. pallida, P. tarminiana, P. tenuiloba
Subordinate taxa
P. foetida var. gossypiifolia
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 959. (1753) Jussieu: Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 6.: 110, plate 37, fig. 1. (1805)
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