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Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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elliptic, acute to attenuate, 3.5-8.5 cm long, 1.0-3.5 cm wide, angle between the<br />

lateral lobes 53-115°, ratio <strong>of</strong> lateral to central lobe length 0.29-0.56, margins<br />

entire, primary veins 1(rare) or 3, diverging and branching at base, laminar<br />

nectaries absent; tendril 0.3-0.6 mm wide, present at flowering node. <strong>Flowers</strong><br />

borne in leaf axils. Pedicels 24.0-55.0 mm long, 0.3-0.8 mm wide; bract(s)<br />

absent or with one, narrowly ovate, acute bract, 0.9-1.8 mm long, 0.1-0.3 mm<br />

wide, the bracts 20.6-34.8 mm from base <strong>of</strong> pedicel; spur(s) absent. Tubular<br />

flowers 7.1-12.8 mm in diameter with stipe 2.9-7.4 mm long, 0.5-1.0 mm wide;<br />

hypanthium 7.1-12.8 mm in diameter; sepals 20.1-31.8 mm long, 3.4-6.9 mm<br />

wide, narrowly ovate, acute, abaxially and adaxially reddish purple (5RP 4/6-4/8)<br />

dried; petals absent; coronal filaments in 1 (rare) or 2 series, the outer 26-30,<br />

basally connate 1.1-3.8 mm, the free portions 5.8-10.3 mm long, 0.3-0.8 mm<br />

wide, linear to narrowly ovate, erect, reddish purple, lighter distally, ratio <strong>of</strong><br />

coronal (fused and free portions) to sepal length 0.28-0.49, the inner not well-<br />

developed with 2-4 filaments or well-developed (rare) with 30-31 filaments, free<br />

or basally connate (rare) 0.8-0.2 mm, the free portions 1.1-2.9 mm long, 0.1-0.2<br />

mm wide, linear, sometime capitellate, erect, appearing reddish purple when<br />

dried, ratio <strong>of</strong> inner coronal row to outer coronal row length (fused and free<br />

portions) 0.11-0.41; operculum 1.7-2.9 mm long, plicate, appearing light reddish<br />

purple dried, the margin with narrow minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.09-0.13<br />

mm high, 1.1-3.5 mm wide, sulcate; limen slightly recurved to erect, occasionally<br />

slightly inclined toward operculum, 0.2-1.1 mm high, 0.1-0.3 mm wide, appearing<br />

light reddish purple (5RP6/6) dried, limen floor 2.1-6.1 mm in diameter, appearing

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