(Last Modified On 11/28/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/28/2012)
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Species
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PASSIFLORA SUBEROSA L.
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Sp. P1. 958. 1753
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Reference
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Killip, in Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 19:88. 1938.
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Passiflora pallida L. loc. cit. 1753. Passiflora hirsuta L. loc. cit. 958. 1753. Passiflora minima L. loc. cit. 959. 1753. Passiflora nigra Jacq. Obs. 2:27. pI. 46, fig. 3. 1767. Passiflora glabra Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. Passiflora no. 4. 1768. Passiflora peltata Cav. Diss. 10:447. pI. 274. 1780. Cieca viridis Medic. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. Cieca nigra (Jacq.) Medic. loc. cit. 1787. Passiflora angustifolia Sw. Prodr. 97. 1788. Passiflora parviflora Sw. loc. cit. 1788 Passiflora heterophylla Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 3:309. 1789, non Lam. Passiflora hederaefolia Lam. Encycl. 3:38. 1789. Passiflora longifolia Lam. loc. cit. 40. 1789. Passiflora hederacea Cav. Diss. 10:448. 1790. Granadilla suberosa (L.) Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 2:480. 1791. Cieca heterophylla (Dryand.) Moench, Method. Suppl. 101. 1802. Cieca suberosa (L.) Moench, loc. cit. 102. 1802. Cieca minima (L.) Moench, loc. cit. 1802. Passiflora litoralis HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:13 8. 1817. Baldwinia peltata (Cav.) Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. 267. 1817. Monactineirma angustifolia (Sw.) Bory, in Ann. G6n. Sci. Phys. Brux. 2:13 8. 1819. Mionactineirma minima (L.) Bory, loc. cit. 1819. Monactineirma suberosa (L.) Bory, loc. cit. 1819. Monactineirma peltata (Cav.) Bory, loc. cit. 1819. Monactineirma hederacea (Cav.) Bory, loc. cit. 1819. Passiflora oliviformis Vell. Fl. Flum. 9: pI. 83. 1827. Passiflora globosa Vell. loc. cit. pl. 85. 1827. Passiflora Kohautiana Presl, Fl. Bemerk. 72. 1836. Passiflora villosa Macfad. Fl. Jam. 2:151. 1837, non Vell. Meioperis peltata (Cav.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4:103. 1838. Meioperis suberosa (L). Raf. loc. cit. 1838. Meioperis minima (L.) Raf. loc. cit. 183 8. Meioperis pallida (L.) Raf. loc. cit. 1838. Meioperis angustifolia (Sw.) Raf. loc. cit. 1838. Meioperis hederacea (Cav.) Raf. loc. cit. 1838. Passiflora Warei Nutt. in Silliman's Journ. ex Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1 :539. 1838. Passiflora limbata Tenore, Ind. Sem. Hort. Neapol. 12: 1839. Passiflora flexuosa Gardn. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1:174. 1842. Passiflora pseudo-suberosa Fisch. Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. Petropol. 9:82, ex Walp. Rep. 2:934. 1843. Cieca peltata (Cav.) M. Roem. Fam. Nat. Syn. 2:141. 1846. Cieca hederacea (Cav.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 1846. Cieca pallida (L.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 1846. Cieca angustifolia (Sw.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 143. 1846. Cieca olivaeforinis (Mill.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 144. 1846. Cieca globosa (Vell.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 1846. Cieca litoralis (HBK.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 145. 1846. Cieca pseudo-suberosa (Fisch.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 146. 1846. Ciecca Warei (Nutt.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 1846. Cieca minima (L.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 147. 1846. Cieca flexuosa (Gardn.) M. Roem. loc. cit. 148. 1846. Cieca limbata (Tenore) M. Roem. loc. cit. 1846. Passiflora lineariloba Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 20:222. 1851. Passiflora tridactylites Hook. f. loc. cit. 1851. Passiflora puberula Hook. f. loc. cit. 223. 1851. Passiflora suberosa var. divaricata Griseb. in Bonplandia 6:7. 1858. Passiflora suberosa var. minima (L.) Mast. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 27:630. 1871. Passiflora suberosa var. hirsuta (L.) Mast. loc. cit. 1871. Passiflora suberosa var. angustifolia (Sw.) Mast. loc. cit. 1871. Passiflora suberosa var. pallida (L.) Mast. loc. cit. 1871. Passiflora suberosa var. hederacea (Cav.) Mast. loc. cit. 1871. Passiflora suberosa var. lineariloba (Hook. f.) Mast. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 131:579. 1872. Passiflora suberosa var. longiloba Tr. & Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat. V. Bot. 17:157. 1873. Passiflora suberosa var. longipes S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. 25:149. 1890. Passiflora calliaquatica Krause, in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. 322:340. 1914.
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Description
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Slender climbers, glabrous to densely puberulent, the base of the stems more or less corky. Leaves petiolate, simple, basifixed, extremely variable, usually definitely 3-lobed, the central lobe longer, rarely almost entire 3-12 cm. long, 2-9 cm. broad, not ocellate or very inconspicuously so; petioles 1-2 cm. long, inconspicuously glandular near the juncture with the leaf blade; stipules inconspicuous and linear. Inflorescences usually paired, each bearing a single small, greenish flower; peduncles filiform, 1-2 cm. long, jointed almost directly beneath the flower; bracts very minute. Flowers about 1-3 cm. in diameter; sepals lanceolate, 0.5-1.5 cm. long, not corniculate; petals absent; filaments of the corona in 2 series, the outer about half as long as the sepals. Fruit globose, deep purple, 0.5-1.5 cm. in diameter.
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Distribution
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Peninsular Florida and southern Texas; Mexico to Brazil and Argentina; Ba- hamas; Antilles; introduced in the Old World tropics. Lowland thickets. MeWon- cillo; huevo de gallo.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Bella Vista, Standley 25357, Killip I2039; Nuevo San Francisco, Standley 30733. SAN BLAS: Puerto Obaldia, Pittier 4402.
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Note
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The preposterous bibliography testifies to the ubiquity and variability of P. suberosa. It is odd that it has been so infrequently collected in Panama.
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