Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

the Aztec name for it, Tzinacanatlapatli, followed by a brief description and
illustration of the plant. He found that the Aztecs used the juice of the leaves to
treat eye problems (Hernández, 1651).
Charles Plumier (1693), in his Description des plantes de l'Amérique,
described and illustrated four more “species” of supersection Cieca: Clematitis
indica, folio hederaceo major, fructu olivae formi (= P. suberosa), Clematitis
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indica, folio angusto, trifido, fructu olivae formi (= P. suberosa), Clematitis indica
alia, flore minore pallido (= P. pallida), and Clematitis indica, flore minimo pallido
(= P. pallida). His descriptions and illustrations of the members of the Passiflora
suberosa complex are truly outstanding and indicate that he had an extensive
knowledge of the variation of the group in the Caribbean.
In the year 1719, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort created two genera of
passionflowers: Granadilla and Murucuia. One species with fused coronal
filaments was placed in the genus Murucuia (= P. murucuja L.). The remaining
23 species recognized by Tournefort, including the species of supersection Cieca
described and illustrated by Plumier, were placed in the genus Granadilla
(Tournefort, 1719).
Plumier and Tournefort, along with authors like Robert Morison and Leonard
Plukenet, laid the foundation for the work of Johann Göstaf Hallman, a graduate
student at Uppsala University under the direction of Carolus Linnaeus (Hallman,
1749; Linnaeus, 1745; Morison, 1680; Plukenet, 1691, 1696). In his dissertation,
Hallman illustrated the leaves and described 22 species of passionflowers with
direct references to earlier synonyms, four of which are members of supersection