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AMERICAN PASSIFLORACEAE 349
Villavicencio, Niceforo in 1927 (Bog); Apollinaire Marie in 1928
(Bog). Antioquia: Boca Regla, Rio Magdalena, 125 meters, Pennell
10991 (A, G, N, Y).
This species is common in Panama at low elevations, but apparently
rare in regions to the north and south. Usually the leaves are
entire, but plants with some of the lower leaves 3-lobed are occasionally
found.
201. Passiflora triloba R. & P. ex DC. Prodr. 3: 330. 1828.
Passiflora colubrina Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. PI. 2: 58. 1835.
Cieca colubrina M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 2: 143. 1846.
Plant glabrous nearly throughout; stem terete, stout; stipules
ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 3 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, acute or
abruptly acuminate, cordate at base, minutely serrulate-denticulate;
petioles up to 10 cm. long, biglandular at apex, the glands saucershaped,
2 to 2.5 mm. long, stipitate; leaves 10 to 15 cm. long, 10 to
18 cm. wide, cordate-ovate or usually 3-lobed to about middle (lobes
ovate or oblong-ovate, up to 7 cm. wide, subequal, obtuse), deeply
cordate at base (basal lobes usually overlapping), minutely denticulate,
thick-membranous, often lustrous above, glaucescent beneath;
peduncles up to 5 cm. long; bracts ovate, 4.5 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 5.5
cm. wide, rounded or acutish at apex, glandular-serrulate, free,
united at very base only, glabrous except for a band of gray tomentum
on inside near margin; flowers up to 10 cm. wide; calyx tube
campanulate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse,
ecorniculate, green without, densely spotted with deep purple within;
petals oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.2 cm. wide, obtuse,
purplish; corona 3-ranked, the 2 outer ranks filamentose, the filaments
banded with purple and white in lower half, with blue and
white in upper half, the outer filaments subulate, 1
to 1.5 cm. long,
the inner ligulate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, these followed by an erect,
purple membrane about 2 mm. high, minutely denticulate; operculum
membranous, horizontally spreading inward, minutely crenulate
at margin; limen erect, adnate to gynophore; ovary ovoid.
TYPE LOCALITY: Peru.
ILLUSTRATION: 111. Hort. 36: pi. 83. 1889.
DISTRIBUTION: Peru and Bolivia, up to 1,000 meters altitude.
PERU: Pavdn (B, BM, Bo, Gen, type, Ma, P). San Martin:
Tarapoto, Spruce 4052 (BM, Brux, K, V). Loreto: Yurimaguas,
Killip & Smith 27664 (F, N, Y), 27834 (F, N, Y), 2871 6 (F, N, Y);