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Figure 8.3. Distribution <strong>of</strong> <strong>Passiflora</strong> pallida.<br />

Notes<br />

In Linnaeus' 1753 edition <strong>of</strong> Species Plantarum, he describes three small-<br />

flowered entities, P. pallida L. ("Habitat in Dominica, Brasilia"), P. hirsuta L.<br />

("Habitat in Dominica and Curassao") and P. minima L. ("Habitat in Curassao"),<br />

for which the historical references include phrases such as ”flore minore" (P.<br />

pallida L.), "flore & fructu minimis" (P. hirsuta) and "flore flavescente omnium<br />

minimo" (P. minima L.). Charles Wright (1869), in an article discussing the genus<br />

Jussiaea L., chose the name P. pallida over P. minima. In the article he<br />

commented on the "embarrassing" status <strong>of</strong> the species <strong>of</strong> <strong>Passiflora</strong> and the<br />

unwise reliance upon vegetative morphology in species circumscription within the

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