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Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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lobes 127-170°, ratio <strong>of</strong> lateral to central lobe length 0.64-0.97, margins entire,<br />

primary veins 3, diverging and branching at base, laminar nectaries absent;<br />

tendril 0.3-1.1 mm wide, present at flowering node, absent in inflorescence.<br />

<strong>Flowers</strong> borne in leaf axils. Pedicels 5.6-20.0 mm long, 0.5-0.9 mm wide, (1-)2<br />

per node; bract(s) absent; spur(s) absent (occasionally) or 5 retrorse spurs<br />

present between the bases <strong>of</strong> the sepals, 0.7-1.1 mm long. <strong>Flowers</strong> 16.9-21.5<br />

mm in diameter with stipe 2.1-7.9 mm long, 0.5-0.9 mm wide; hypanthium 4.0-5.9<br />

mm in diameter; sepals 5.5-8.5 mm long, 2.3-3.9 mm wide, ovate-triangular,<br />

acute to rounded, the 2-3 outermost with a (0.5-)0.8-1.2 mm blunt subapical<br />

horn, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow, <strong>of</strong>ten with a flush <strong>of</strong> reddish purple<br />

(5PR 3/4-4/6) abaxially; petals absent; coronal filaments in 2 series, the outer 24-<br />

31, 2.0-4.1 mm long, 0.1-0.3 mm wide, linear, reflexed above middle and the tips<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten slightly incurved, greenish yellow at base, yellow distally, ratio <strong>of</strong> outer<br />

coronal row to sepal length 0.30-0.70, the inner 18-34, 0.7-1.5 mm long, 0.1-0.2<br />

mm wide, linear, <strong>of</strong>ten capitate, erect, greenish yellow, ratio <strong>of</strong> inner coronal row<br />

to outer coronal row length 0.28-0.66; operculum 1.4-2.9 mm long, plicate,<br />

greenish yellow, sometimes with a flush <strong>of</strong> reddish purple at center, whitish<br />

distally, the margin with narrow minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.06-0.88 mm<br />

high, 0.6-1.5 mm wide; limen recurved, 0.2-0.5 mm high, 0.2-0.3 mm wide,<br />

whitish, limen floor 1.6-2.1 mm in diameter, whitish; androgynophore 1.3-3.5 mm<br />

long, 0.8-1.3 mm wide; free portions <strong>of</strong> the staminal filaments 2.1-3.8 mm long,<br />

0.3-0.5 mm wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 2.3-3.8 mm long, 0.5-1.7 mm<br />

wide, greenish yellow, oriented perpendicular or nearly so (laterally) to their

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