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Passiflora

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malpighiales Family: Passifloraceae Genus: Passiflora

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Lianas or herbaceous vines with axillary tendrils, sometimes trees or shrubs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple or rarely compound. Alternate or in 1 species opposite. Margins entire or lobed. Petiolate. Stipules present, small and deciduous.

Flowers: Flowers usually solitary or in pairs, sometimes in racemes, axillary, bracts 3, foliaceous or setaceous. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, imbricate, persistent. Corolla of 5 petals, alternate with the sepals, imbricate, or absent. Stamens 5(–8), on an androgynophore; anthers dithecal, versatile, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 3-carpellate or in 1 species 4-carpellate, stipitate, placentation parietal; ovules anatropous.

Fruit: Berries or rarely a capsules. Seeds numerous; Seed coat reticulate; with an aromatic; succulent; edible aril; embryo embedded in copious oily; soft fleshy endosperm.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

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Natural History

Island Status

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 955 (1753)

Occurrences

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