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Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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usually alternate with the petals, borne on an <strong>of</strong>ten elongate androgynophore or<br />

androgynophore rarely absent; filaments free just below ovary or rarely connate<br />

into a tube around ovary; anthers introrse in bud, moving to become extrorse<br />

(rarely latrorse) at anthesis, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally, borne<br />

parallel or perpendicular to their filaments; pollen binucleate, 3- to 12-colporate.<br />

Carpels 3(-5), connate, ovary superior, unilocular, borne on an <strong>of</strong>ten elongate<br />

androgynophore (rarely sessile), placentation parietal, anatropous ovules<br />

numerous on each placenta; styles distinct, rarely connate near base; stigmas<br />

capitate, clavate, reniform, or occasionally bilobed. Fruit a few to many seeded<br />

berry, rarely a loculicidal capsule. Seeds arillate, usually flattened, the testa<br />

pitted, reticulate-foveate, or transversely grooved or sulcate; endosperm slightly<br />

ruminate, oily, abundant; embryo straight, the cotyledons usually elliptic to<br />

oblong-elliptic; germination epigeal (rarely hypogeal). Chromosome numbers: n<br />

= 6, 9, 10, 12 (rarely 7, 11, 18, 42).<br />

Description <strong>of</strong> <strong>Passiflora</strong> <strong>Subgenus</strong> <strong>Decaloba</strong> Supersection Cieca<br />

<strong>Passiflora</strong> subgenus <strong>Decaloba</strong> (DC.) Rchb. supersection Cieca (Medik.) J. M.<br />

MacDougal & Feuillet. A new infrageneric classification <strong>of</strong> <strong>Passiflora</strong>. <strong>Passiflora</strong><br />

14, in press. 2004. Cieca Medik. Malvenfam. 97. 1787. <strong>Passiflora</strong> sect. Cieca<br />

(Medik.) DC. Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 1: 435. 1922. <strong>Passiflora</strong> subgenus<br />

<strong>Decaloba</strong> section Cieca (Medik.) Mast. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 630. 1871. TYPE<br />

SPECIES (designated by E.P. Killip, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 19:

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