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Passiflora suberosa subsp. litoralis (Kunth) Port.-Utl. ex M. A. M. Azevedo, Baumgratz & Gonç.-Estev.

Description

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Sparsely to densely pubescent with unicellular or multicellular curved trichomes on leaf, petiole, stipule, stem and sepal 0.16–1.13 mm long, 0.02–0.03 mm wide, also minutely antrorsely appressed-puberulent on leaf, petiole, stem, stipule and sepal with unicellular, curved trichomes, 0.05–0.10 mm long, 0.02–0.03 mm wide. Laminas not peltate. Flowers borne in leaf axils or sometimes in indeterminate axillary or terminal inflorescences; inflorescences 2.0–4.0 cm long, associated reduced laminas 2.0–4.3 mm long, 1.5–3.1 mm wide. Pedicels 2.3–17.9 mm long, 0.2–0.7 mm wide, 2 per node; bract(s) absent or rarely with 1 or 2 narrowly ovate-triangular bracts present at (0.23-)0.42–0.88 of the distance from the base toward the apex of the pedicel, 0.4–1.1(-2.3) mm long, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, acute. Flowers 12.3–26.1 mm in diameter with stipe 0.2–7.5(10.1) mm long; hypanthium (3.0-)4.0–6.3(-7.1) mm in diameter; sepals 4.0–9.0(-10.8) mm long, 2.0–5.5 mm wide, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow to very light greenish yellow (5GY 7/4, 8/4–8/2); coronal filaments in 2 series (very rarely 1 series), the outer 2.5–7.5 mm long, linear, sometimes capitellate, erect (ca. 70°) or slightly spreading (ca. 110°) or spreading (ca. 180°-220°), greenish yellow with yellow tips (5Y 8/10) or flushed with reddish purple (5RP 5/6–3/6) at base and greenish yellow at middle with yellow tips, ratio of outer coronal row to sepal length 0.39–0.95, the inner (1-)20–50(-53), erect to spreading slightly, greenish yellow or greenish yellow with yellow tips or greenish yellow flushed with reddish purple at base and yellow toward tips; operculum 0.7–2.3 mm long, greenish yellow or greenish yellow with a flush of reddish purple at base or reddish purple, margin white; nectary 0.1–0.9 mm high, 0.3–1.3 mm wide; limen recurved, erect or slightly inclined toward the operculum, greenish yellow or greenish yellow with reddish purple tip, limen floor greenish yellow or greenish yellow flushed with reddish purple; androgynophore 2.1–4.4(-6.1) mm long, 0.3–1.3 mm wide, greenish yellow or greenish yellow with a flush of reddish purple at base or greenish yellow with reddish purple spots and streaks; free portions of the staminal filaments 1.6–3.9 mm long, anthers with yellow pollen; styles 1.7–4.7(-5.8) mm long including stigmas. Berry 7.9–11.9 mm long, depressed globose to globose to ellipsoid. Seeds ca. 8–34.
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Porter-Utley K (2014) A revision of Passiflora L. subgenus Decaloba (DC.) Rchb. supersection Cieca (Medik.) J. M. MacDougal & Feuillet (Passifloraceae) PhytoKeys (43): 1–224
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Distribution

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In the New World tropics: Central America, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paragual, Peru, and Venezuela. Introduced in the Old World tropics: Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Hawaiian Islands. Growing in shrubs, trees or trailing on the ground in secondary successional areas, along the edges of semideciduous to deciduous, dry to moist tropical forests, both inland and near the seashore, 0–2800 m.
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cc-by-3.0
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Kristen Porter-Utley
bibliographic citation
Porter-Utley K (2014) A revision of Passiflora L. subgenus Decaloba (DC.) Rchb. supersection Cieca (Medik.) J. M. MacDougal & Feuillet (Passifloraceae) PhytoKeys (43): 1–224
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Kristen Porter-Utley
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