Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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with rounded edges, greenish yellow or reddish purple (5RP 5/6), 1.0-2.7 mm in
diameter, with the base somewhat woody and cork-covered. Stipules
asymmetrically ovate to obovate, acute, 5-10 veins departing from the base,
(6.0)8.3-18.9(-23.0) mm long, 2.8-11.3(-15.0) mm wide; petioles 1.1-4.3 cm long,
inserted 2.3-15.8 mm from the basal margins of the peltate blades, commonly
bearing on the proximal half (0.21-0.52 of the distance from the base toward the
apex of the petiole), 2, round or elliptic, opposite to subopposite, sessile or
shortly stipitate, saucer-shaped nectaries with flat rims, 0.9-2.7 mm wide, 0.3-2.1
mm high. Laminas 3.4-14.0 cm long, 6.0-20.0 cm wide, coriaceous, occasionally
variegated as juveniles, conspicuously peltate, deeply 3-lobed (0.42-)0.50-0.86
the distance from the leaf outline to the leaf base, lateral lobes elliptic to obovate,
acute to obtuse, 2.9-11.1 cm long, 1.2-4.5 cm wide, central lobes obovate, acute
to obtuse, 3.1-13.2 cm long, 1.3-5.0 cm wide, narrowed at base, angle between
the lateral lobes 95-160°, ratio of lateral to central lobe length 0.75-0.99, margins
entire, thickened, sometimes purplish red, primary veins 3, diverging and
branching above base, 4-11 laminar nectaries present, submarginal, associated
with the minor veins of the abaxial surface, 0.3-1.0 mm in diameter, circular to
widely elliptic, sessile; tendril 0.4-1.1 mm wide, present at flowering node, absent
in inflorescence. Flowers paired in leaf axils or in terminal inflorescences;
inflorescences 4.7-9.8 cm long, associated reduced laminas 7.0-14.4 mm long,
0.5-1.3 mm wide. Pedicels 2.9-19.0(-27.0) mm long, 0.5-1.1 mm wide; bract(s)
absent; spur(s) absent. Flowers 24.5-31.3 mm in diameter with stipe 0.9-2.0 mm
long, 0.6-1.3 mm wide; hypanthium 6.0-8.3 mm in diameter; sepals 9.3-11.5 mm