Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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operculum, 0.1-0.7 mm high, 0.1-0.6 mm wide, greenish yellow or greenish
yellow with reddish purple tip, limen floor (1.3-)1.8-4.0 mm in diameter, greenish
yellow or greenish yellow flushed with reddish purple; androgynophore (2.1-)2.7-
6.1(-12.6) mm long, 0.3-1.8 mm wide, greenish yellow or greenish yellow with a
flush of reddish purple at base or greenish yellow with reddish purple spots and
streaks; free portions of the staminal filaments 1.6-6.0(-6.8) mm long, 0.2-0.7 mm
wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 1.4-3.3 mm long, 0.3-1.7 mm wide, pollen
whitish or yellow; styles (1.7-)2.1-6.5(-7.7) mm long including stigmas, 0.1-0.5
mm wide, greenish yellow; stigmas 0.3-1.7 mm in diameter; ovary 1.2-4.1 mm
long, 0.8-3.7 mm wide, ellipsoid to globose, greenish yellow. Berry 7.9-15.8 mm
long, 7.4-13.4 mm wide, ovoid, ellipsoid or transversely ellipsoid, very dark purple
(5P 2.5/2). Seeds ca. 8-34, obovate in outline, 2.5-4.0 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm
wide, 1.0-1.8 mm thick, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with ca. 12-16
foveae, acute at both ends, chalazal beak and micropyle inclined toward raphe;
germination type epigeal. Chromosome number 2n=12, 24, 36 (Beal, 1969;
Diers, 1961; Storey, 1950). Fig. 8.5-8.8
Distribution and Ecology
New World tropics, but introduced in the Old World tropics. Growing in shrubs
and trees or trailing on the ground in secondary successional areas, along the
edges of semideciduous to deciduous, dry to wet tropical forests, both inland and
near the seashore, 0-2500 m. Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.