Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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yellow, ratio of inner coronal row to outer coronal row length 0.34-0.60(-0.94);
operculum (1.5-)2.0-2.6 mm long, plicate, very pale yellow to yellowish dried,
sometimes with reddish purple spots and streaks; nectary 0.2-0.5 mm high, 0.7-
1.1 mm wide; limen recurved, (sometimes erect), 0.2-0.3(-0.6) mm high, 0.1-0.3
mm wide, yellowish or yellowish with a reddish purple base dried, limen floor 2.2-
3.6 mm in diameter, yellowish or yellowish with reddish purple spots and streaks
dried; androgynophore 8.0-10.8(-14.1) mm long, 0.6-1.0 mm wide, purplish; free
portions of the staminal filaments 2.9-6.5 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, linear,
yellowish dried; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long, (0.3-)0.5-1.2 mm wide, oriented
perpendicular or nearly so to their filaments; styles 3.4-5.0 mm long including
stigmas, 0.2-0.4 mm wide, greenish yellow; stigmas 0.5-0.9 mm in diameter;
ovary 2.8-5.3 mm long, 1.3-2.1(-2.9) mm wide, ellipsoid to fusiform, greenish.
Berry 12.8-17.1(-21.1) mm long, 6.8-8.0(-10.0) mm wide, fusiform, very dark
purple. Seeds ca. 20, obovate in outline, 2.7-3.1 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide, 1.2-
1.4 mm thick, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with
ca. 24 foveae. Fig. 8.9-8.11.
Distribution and Ecology
Ecuador in the Province of Galápagos: Gardner Island (near Isla Española),
Isla Fernandina, Isla Floreana, Isla Isabela, Isla Pinta, Isla San Cristobal, Isla
Española, Isla San Salvador, Isla Santa Cruz, Isla Santa María, Isla Santiago.
Growing in shrubs, trees or trailing on the ground in secondary successional
areas and in dry tropical forests with Castela, Scalesia, Psidium, and Bursera, 0-
800 m. Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.