Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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25): Cieca viridis Medik. [nom. illeg. based upon type material of Passiflora
minima L. (= Passiflora pallida L.)].
Monactineirma Bory. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 2: 138. 1819. Meioperis Raf. Fl.
Tellur. 4: 103. 1838. TYPE SPECIES (designated here): Passiflora suberosa
L.
Small to medium-sized climbing or procumbent vines with annual or perennial
stems from woody perennial rootstocks or taproots, antrorsely appressed-
puberulent more or less throughout, with unicellular, curved or occasionally erect
trichomes, and sometimes sparsely to densely pubescent with longer unicellular,
rarely multicellular, curved trichomes. Stems terete to somewhat compressed
and two-edged, the shoot apex erect. Leaves simple, commonly bearing
nectaries on the petiole (except in P. eglandulosa and P. mcvaughiana); petioles
sometimes canaliculate, biglandular (rarely eglandular or with only a single
gland) with opposite, subopposite or alternate, discoid, cupulate, obconical or
capitate extrafloral nectaries; laminas unlobed or 2- to 3-lobed (rarely 5-lobed),
often exhibiting heterophylly, sometimes cordate at base, entire (very rarely
crenate), venation pinnate or usually palmate, variegated or not, peltate or not,
sometimes bearing small abaxial disciform or crateriform nectaries present ±
submarginally between the major veins (very rarely associated with leaf
crenations). Stipules setaceous to foliaceous, persistent, narrowly to widely
ovate, rarely oblong or obovate, symmetrical or sometimes asymmetrical, entire,