Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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light reddish purple dried; androgynophore 17.8-22.3 mm long, 0.6-1.3 mm wide,
reddish purple dried; free portions of the staminal filaments 3.3-8.0 mm long, 0.3-
0.7 mm wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 1.8-4.0 mm long, 0.5-2.0 mm wide;
styles 4.3-7.0 mm long including stigmas, 0.1-0.4 mm wide, greenish yellow;
stigmas 0.4-1.1 mm in diameter; ovary 2.6-6.7 mm long, 1.2-3.8 mm wide,
elliptic, greenish yellow. Berry 12.8-13.9 mm long, 11.0-14.4 mm wide, ovoid to
obovoid, very dark purple. Seeds ca. (6-)14-23, obovate in outline, 3.0-3.2 mm
long, 1.8-1.9 mm wide, 1.3 mm thick, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with
each face marked with ca. 15-17 foveae. Fig. 8.12-8.13
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to Jamaica, in the parishes of St. Andrew, St. Thomas, and Portland.
Tropical lower montane mist forests on steep wooded hillsides and in thickets;
growing on shrubs and trees; ca. 850-1220 m. Flowering and fruiting May to
December.
Vernacular Names
Lanceolate-leaved passionflower (Don, 1934), granadilla de las sierras
(Goyena, 1909).
Additional Specimens Examined
Jamaica. –PORTLAND: Silver Hill Woodcutter’s Gap, 3500 ft., Adams 11,936
(UCWI); Silver Hill, 3500 ft., Harris 6536 (BM, UCWI); Silver Hill, Blue Mountains,
3000 ft., Philipson 971 (BM); along the Buff Bay Road 0.5 mi. due W of Section,