Passiflora sexflora |
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goatsfoot |
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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 sexflora |
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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 |
FL; Mexico; Central America; West Indies (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico); South America (Colombia, Ecuador)
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Discussion | 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. 175. |
Parent taxa | Passifloraceae > Passiflora |
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Name authority | Jussieu: Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 6.: 110, plate 37, fig. 1. (1805) |
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