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420 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. XIX
VENEZUELA: Carabobo: Guaremales, Pittier 8854 (B, N, type of
P. dispar). Aragua: El Portachuelo, Pittier 11813 (N).
COLOMBIA: Tolima: Near Ibague", Goudot (P, type of P. populifolia)
Caldas: Salento, Pennell 9064 (N, Ph). El Valle: La Cumbre,
Killip 5555 (G, N, Y), 5682 (G, Ma, N, Ph, Y); Cuatrecasas 2006
(Ma). Pavas, Killip 11662 (N). Between Potrerillo and Miraflores,
Pennell & Killip 6115 (G, N, Ph, Y).
This species, evidently of wide geographic distribution, was
known to Masters from only a single Costa Rican specimen, collected
by Oersted. This type specimen is glabrous throughout,
and the leaves are rather narrowly oblong-lanceolate.
In view of recent collections it is evident that four species should
be merged in P. Oerstedii. This multiplicity of names is due to a
lack of appreciation of the variability of the foliage and the indument,
and to the fact that type material of P. Oerstedii is limited.
Passiflora populifolia, described from Colombia, has leaves of a
more ovate type; P. Purpusii, from the northern limit of the range
of distribution, has the under surface of the leaves pubescent and
has relatively small flowers. The material upon which both of
these were based had strictly unlobed leaves.
In P. dispar the leaves of the type specimen, from Venezuela,
are asymmetrically bilobed, but a type collection at Berlin has both
entire and symmetrically 3-lobed leaves. The plant common in
Guatemala and Honduras, which has been known as P. choconiana,
has the leaves nearly always 3-lobed, and is perhaps best treated
as a variety.
LOCAL NAME: "Granadilla" (Costa Rica).
256a. Passiflora Oerstedii var. choconiana (Wats.) Killip, Carnegie
Inst. Wash. Publ. 461: 321. 1936.
Passiflora choconiana Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 474. 1887.
Leaves prevailingly 3-lobed.
TYPE LOCALITY: Chocon River, Guatemala.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico to Costa Rica.
MEXICO : Tabasco : Between Atasta and Tamulte', Rovirosa 781 (Ph) .
GUATEMALA: Rio Chocon, Watson 212 (G, type). Alta Verapaz:
Chamiquin, Turckheim 545 (B). Semacoch, Goll 270 (N). Pansamala,
Turckheim 986 (B, BM, G, N). Cubiliquitz, Turckheim II.
188 (N), 77-45 (N), 8213 (N). Coban, Turckheim 2480 (N). Finca