Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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Slender, climbing, perennial vine 3 m long or more, densely pubescent with
unicellular curved trichomes throughout, 0.2-0.7 mm long, 0.02-0.03 mm wide,
also minutely antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout with unicellular, curved
trichomes, 0.08-0.10 mm long, 0.02 mm wide. Flowering stems somewhat
compressed, 0.9-2.1 mm in diameter, base somewhat woody and cork-covered.
Stipules linear-narrowly ovate, acute to attenuate, longitudinally striate-nerved,
2.0-8.0 mm long, 0.3-1.1 mm wide; petioles 0.4-1.5(-3.7) cm long, commonly
bearing in the distal half (0.54-0.83 of the distance from the base toward the apex
of the petiole) (1-)2, round or elliptic, opposite to alternate, sessile (rare) or
stipitate, cupulate nectaries, 0.3-0.6 mm wide (on the widest axis), 0.3-1.0 mm
high. Laminas 1.4-9.0 cm long, 1.6-6.4(-11.9) cm wide, deeply 3-lobed 0.21-0.93
of the distance to the leaf base, lateral lobes oblong to obovate, acute to rounded
(rarely emarginate), (0.8-)2.0-4.2(-7.3) cm long, (0.1-)0.6-1.8(-2.3) cm wide,
central lobes elliptic to obovate, acute to rounded (rarely emarginate), 1.4-5.2
(-9.0) cm long, (0.2-)0.5-3.0 cm wide, often narrowed at base, angle between the
lateral lobes 79-134°, ratio of lateral to central lobe lengths 0.60-0.96, margins
entire, primary veins 3, diverging and branching at base, laminar nectaries
absent; tendril 0.3-0.7 mm wide, present at flowering node. Flowers borne in leaf
axils. Pedicels 11.0-18.0(-23.0) mm long, 0.4-0.8 mm wide; bract(s) absent;
spur(s) absent. Tubular flowers 5.5-8.1 mm in diameter with stipe 1.5-6.5 mm
long, 0.4-0.9 mm wide; hypanthium 5.5-8.1 mm in diameter; sepals 19.3-26.1
mm long, basally connate 7.1-12.5 mm, 1.3-3.1 mm wide, linear to narrowly
ovate, acute to rounded, abaxially and adaxially red (ca. 5R 6/10), free portions