Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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Small, slender, low-climbing or trailing, perennial vine 0.2-1.5 m long, minutely
antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout (except ovary) with unicellular,
curved and erect trichomes, 0.1-0.2 mm long, 0.02-0.03 mm wide. Flowering
stems terete, red (5R 4/8) when young, 0.9-1.8 mm in diameter, with the base
somewhat cork covered. Stipules asymmetrically ovate, acute to attenuate,
(3.8-)5.3-10.1 mm long, 2.2-7.3 mm wide, 5-13 veins departing from base;
petioles 0.4-1.2 cm long, with 1 or 2 (rarely eglandular), round or elliptic, opposite
to subopposite, sessile or shortly stipitate, saucer-shaped nectaries with flat rims,
1.0-1.5 mm wide (on the widest axis), 0.8-1.1 mm high, borne below the distal
third of the petiole (0.29-0.90 of the distance from the base toward the apex of
the petiole). Laminas 1.6-4.0 cm long, 2.1-6.7 cm wide, subcoriaceous, 3- to 5-
lobed 0.05-0.52 the distance to the leaf base, lateral lobes elliptic, acute, 1.3-3.1
cm long, 0.5-1.7 cm wide, central lobe elliptic, acute to rounded, 1.6-4.0 cm long,
angle between the lateral lobes 93-145°, ratio of lateral lobe to central lobe length
0.67-1.28, margins entire, hyaline, primary veins 3, diverging and branching at
base, laminar nectaries, 1-4, circular, submarginal, associated with the minor
veins of the abaxial surface, 0.6-1.1 mm in diameter, sessile; tendril 0.2-0.7 mm
wide, present at flowering node. Flowers borne in leaf axils. Pedicels 5.3-7.6
mm long, 0.3-0.7 mm wide, 2 per node; bract(s) absent; spur(s) absent. Flowers
26.6-30.9 mm in diameter with stipe 1.8-3.4 mm long, 0.5-1.0 mm wide;
hypanthium 8.1-8.4 mm in diameter; sepals 9.1-11.4 mm long, 5.5-6.3 mm wide,
ovate-triangular, acute, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow, reflexed at
anthesis; petals absent; coronal filaments in 2 series, the outer 35-39, 4.7-5.1