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Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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abaxial surface, 0.6-0.9 mm in diameter, circular to widely elliptic, sessile; tendril<br />

0.1-0.5 mm wide, present at flowering node. <strong>Flowers</strong> borne in leaf axils.<br />

Pedicels 1.3-8.5 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, paired in the leaf axils; bract(s)<br />

absent or rarely with one narrowly ovate, attenuate, bract present on the distal tip<br />

<strong>of</strong> the pedicel, ca. 0.8 mm long, 0.3 mm wide; spur(s) absent. <strong>Flowers</strong> 12.8-20.6<br />

mm in diameter with stipe 1.1-4.1 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide; hypanthium 4.3-5.9<br />

mm in diameter; sepals 3.9-8.1 mm long, 1.7-4.3 mm wide, ovate-triangular,<br />

acute to rounded, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow; petals absent; coronal<br />

filaments in 2 series, the outer 35-47, 2.7-4.9 mm long, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, linear,<br />

tapering to a point or slightly capitellate, reflexed above middle and the tips <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

slightly incurved, greenish yellow toward the base and yellow toward the tip or<br />

reddish purple (5RP 3/4) at the base and yellow toward the tip, ratio <strong>of</strong> outer<br />

coronal row to sepal length 0.44-0.90, the inner 35-50, 1.6-3.1 mm long, 0.1-0.3<br />

mm wide, linear, capitate, greenish yellow with yellow tips or reddish purple with<br />

yellow tips, erect, ratio <strong>of</strong> inner coronal row to outer coronal row length 0.46-0.68;<br />

operculum 0.9-1.3 mm long, plicate, greenish yellow with yellow margin or<br />

reddish purple with yellow margin, the margin with narrow minutely fimbrillate<br />

teeth; nectary 0.1-1.0 mm high, 0.4-0.7 mm wide, slightly sulcate; limen recurved,<br />

0.1-0.7 mm high, 0.2-1.1 mm wide, greenish yellow with a white margin or<br />

reddish purple with a white margin, limen floor 1.1-2.9 mm in diameter, greenish<br />

yellow or greenish yellow with reddish purple spots and streaks; androgynophore<br />

2.9-4.2 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, greenish yellow or greenish yellow with<br />

reddish purple spots and streaks; free portions <strong>of</strong> the staminal filaments 1.9-3.6

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