Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

Cieca: Passiflora foliis indivisis ovatis integerrimis, petiolis biglandulosis (= P.
pallida), Passiflora foliis trilobis peltatis (= P. suberosa), Passiflora foliis trilobis
villosis, floribus opposites (= P. pallida, but considered within P. hirsuta by
Linnaeus), and Passiflora foliis trilobis integerrimis, lobis sublanceolatis:
intermedio productiore (= P. pallida, but considered within P. minima by
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Linnaeus). He included information about the history, nomenclature, distribution,
superstitions, and medicinal and economic uses of the plants; he ended his
dissertation with two poems. In Linnaeus’ (1753) Species Plantarum, all of the
22 species from Hallman’s dissertation were placed in the genus Passiflora,
along with two additional species.
In 1782, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus began to publish essays treating the
Passifloraceae (Medikus, 1782/1783,1784). In 1787, as a tribute to Pedro Cieza
de León, he created the genus Cieca for the apetalous members [Cieca viridis (=
P. minima) and Cieca nigra (= P. suberosa)] of the group; he did not rename or
treat P. pallida. He recognized Linnaeus’ genus Passiflora but also revived
Tourneforte’s Granadilla and Murucuia (Medikus, 1787).
The next published monograph was Decima dissertatio botanica de Passiflora
(Cavanilles, 1790) in which a total of 43 species (all placed in the genus
Passiflora) were described; 32 of the species were illustrated. One new species
of supersection Cieca [P. peltata Cav. (= P. suberosa in this revision)] was
included, in addition to the four described by Linnaeus. In 1799, Cavanilles, in
his Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum, described another species of
supersection Cieca, the tubular-flowered P. viridiflora (Cavanilles, 1799).