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Figure 8.19. Flower <strong>of</strong> P. trinifolia (MacDougal 637). Scale bar = 5.0 mm. Photo<br />

by J. M. MacDougal.<br />

<strong>Passiflora</strong> clypeophylla<br />

Description <strong>of</strong> <strong>Passiflora</strong> clypeophylla<br />

9. <strong>Passiflora</strong> clypeophylla Mast. Bot. Gaz. 16: 6-7. 1891. TYPE:<br />

GUATEMALA, Alta Verapaz, Barranca del Rubelcruz, alt. 2,500 pp., estimated<br />

coordinates 15º 29’N, 90º08’W, April 1889, J.D. Smith 1625 (holotype: US!).<br />

Climbing vine, minutely antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout with<br />

unicellular, curved trichomes, 0.03-0.10 mm long, 0.03 mm wide. Flowering<br />

stems subterete, 2.1-3.4 mm in diameter. Stipules narrowly ovate-triangular,<br />

acute, (3.3-)5.9-6.4 mm long, 0.8-1.3 mm wide; petioles 3.3-3.8 cm long, with 2,<br />

opposite to subopposite, sessile, discoid nectaries with flat rims, 1.3-1.7 mm wide<br />

(on the widest axis), 0.5-0.6 mm high, borne on the proximal half <strong>of</strong> the petiole<br />

(0.37-0.47 <strong>of</strong> the distance from the base toward the apex <strong>of</strong> the petiole). Laminas<br />

6.0-8.7 cm long, 6.7-10.8 cm wide, somewhat coriaceous, distinctly peltate (the

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