Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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4.3) mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm wide, linear, often capitellate, strongly curved at the
base so that the filaments spread ± horizontally, with the tips often curved toward
the sepals, greenish yellow, sometimes flushed with reddish purple at base, ratio
of outer coronal row to sepal length 0.22-0.56(-0.85), the inner 38-40, 0.9-3.3 mm
long, 0.1-0.3 mm wide, linear, capitate, erect, greenish yellow, ratio of inner
coronal row to outer coronal row length 0.55-1.15; operculum 1.0-2.1 mm long,
plicate, greenish yellow, sometimes reddish purple at base, the margin whitish
with narrow minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.1-0.5(-0.9) mm high, 0.8-1.5 mm
wide; limen erect, 0.1-0.5 mm high, 0.1-0.4 mm wide, greenish yellow, limen floor
1.0-3.5 mm in diameter, greenish yellow; androgynophore 0.7-3.9 mm long, 0.7-
1.3 mm wide, greenish yellow, whitish at base; free portions of the staminal
filaments 1.6-3.7 mm long, 0.3-0.7 mm wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 1.0-
3.0 mm long, 0.5-1.7 mm wide, greenish yellow; styles 2.2-4.1 mm long including
stigmas, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, greenish yellow; stigmas 0.8-1.6 mm in diameter;
ovary 2.0-2.3 mm long, 1.4-2.2 mm wide, widely ellipsoid to globose, greenish
yellow. Berry 2.3-2.6 cm long, 2.1-2.4 cm wide, widely ellipsoid to globose, very
dark purple. Seeds obovate in outline, 3.3-3.6(-5) mm long, 2.0-2.3(-3.2) mm
wide, 1.5-1.8 mm thick, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each face
marked with15-17 foveae. Germination unknown. Chromosome number: 2n=12
(Snow & MacDougal, 1993). Fig. 8.18 and 8.21.
Distribution and Ecology
Costa Rica in the province of Guanacaste; El Salvador in the department of
Ahuachapán; México, in the states of Colima, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarít, and