Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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associated with oaks and pines. Passiflora trinifolia is a rare plant found in open,
strongly seasonally dry pine and oak forests in northeastern Baja Verapaz,
Guatemala (Fig. 8.18). Passiflora macfadyenii was last collected in 1979 and
repeated attempts to find the plant by myself, Elma Kay (Missouri Botanical
Garden), and George Proctor (Institute of Jamaica) have failed. It has been
found in tropical dry forests in roadside thickets and wooded limestone hills in the
parishes of St. Andrew and St. Thomas (Fig. 8.13). Passiflora lancifolia, another
Jamaican endemic of supersection Cieca, is found in tropical lower montane mist
forests on steep wooded hillsides in the Blue Mountains (Fig. 8.13). Passiflora
tridactylites is an endemic of the Galapagos and grows in dry tropical forests at
altitudes ranging from sea level to 800 m (Fig. 8.11).
Many of the species of the supersection have wider geographic ranges in
México, Central America, and South America. Passiflora tenuiloba is a plant
occurring in arid and semiarid thorn scrub and grasslands from southern Texas
to northern México (Fig. 8.16). Passiflora xiikzodz is found in the same habitats
as its sister P. itzensis, but in addition to being found in the Yucatán Peninsula of
México, its range extends to Belize and Guatemala (Fig. 8.37). Passiflora
sexocellata is found from southern México to Nicaragua (Fig. 8.29). Throughout
its range this species is found in low, moist to wet tropical forests near streams
and rivers, but, in the state of Veracruz, México, it can be found growing on
seaside cliffs. Passiflora megacoriacea is found in Costa Rica and Panama. In
the northwestern corner of Costa Rica, in the province of Guanacaste, this
species is deeply trilobed and occurs in the premontane transitional belt between