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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 11/28/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 11/28/2012)
Species PASSIFLORA VITIFOLIA HBK.
PlaceOfPublication Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:138. 1817
Reference Killip, in Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 19:319. 1938.
Synonym Passiflora sanguinea J. E. Sm. in Rees, Cycl. 26: Passiflora no. 45. 1819. Passiflora Pu-nicea R. & P. ex DC. Prodr. 3:329. 1828. Tacsonia sanguinea (J. E. Sm.) DC. loc. cit. 3 3 4. 1 8 2 8. Macrophora sanguinea (J. E. Sm.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4:103. 1838. Passiflora serrulata var. pubescens Griseb. in Bonplandia 6:7. 1858. Passiflora serviteizsis Karst. in Linnaea 3 0:163. 18 59. Tacsonia Buchanani Lem. Ill. Hort. 14: pI. 519. 1867.
Description Rather coarse climbers, more or less densely ferruginous-pubescent throughout. Leaves petiolate, basifixed, rather inconspicuously serrulate, deeply 3-lobed, the central lobe stronger, more or less deeply cordate, 7-15 cm. long, 8-17 cm. broad; petioles 2-6 cm. long, bearing 2 to several rather inconspicuous glands toward the base; stipules subsetaceous, 3-5 mm. long. Inflorescences solitary, bearing a single very showy yellow and scarlet flower; peduncle 4-8 cm. long, jointed almost di- rectly beneath the flower; bracts conspicuous and foliaceous or somewhat petaloid, lanceolate, glandular-serrate to nearly entire, 1.5-2.5 cm. long. Flowers 10-15 cm. in diameter; sepals about 6-10 cm. long, corniculate; petals narrowly lanceolate, nearly as long as the sepals; filaments of the corona in 3 series, the outer 1.5-2.0 cm. long. Fruits broadly ovoid, 3-6 cm. long, greenish yellow, densely puberulent.
Distribution Nicaragua to Venezuela and Peru; Cuba and Jamaica; in lowland forests.
Note Known as guate-guate and Pasionaria in Panama.
Common guate-guate Pasionaria
Specimen CANAL ZONE: Las Cruces Trail, Hunter & Allen 456; Barro Colorado Island, Wetmore d Abbe 76; between Summit and Gamboa, Greenman &f Greenman 5220; Chagres, Fendler ii8. CHIRIQUI: San Bartolom , Woodson & Schery 87. COCLE: mountains beyond La Pintada, Hunter & Allen 558; El Valle de Anton, Allen i66o. COLON: Camp Pifia, Allen 343I. DARIEN: Marraganti, NWilliams II50; Chepigana, Terry & Terry I374; Rio Sabana, Leopold III I26. PANAMA: Tapia River, Juan Diaz region, Maxon & Harvey 6733, 6678, 6683, Standley 28IOI; Tecumen River, Killip 33I3; Orange River, Killip 3335; Pacora, Bro. Paul 292.
Note The dazzling flowers of P. vitifolia are frequent and widespread in lowland thickets and open forests throughout the Republic.
 
 
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