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Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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

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<strong>Passiflora</strong> viridiflora<br />

12. <strong>Passiflora</strong> viridiflora Cav. Ic. Pl. 5: 15. pl. 424. 1799.<br />

Tacsonia viridiflora (Cav.) Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6: 389. 1805. Murucuia<br />

viridiflora (Cav.) Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 43. 1826. Synactila viridiflora (Cav.)<br />

Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 104. 1838. Psilanthus viridiflora (Cav.) M. Roem. Fam. Nat.<br />

Syn. 2: 143. 1838. TYPE: MÉXICO, Guerrero, Acapulco, L. Nee s.n. (holotype:<br />

MA!; photographs DUKE!, F!, MEXU; isotype: F!).<br />

<strong>Passiflora</strong> tubiflora H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 139. 1817. TYPE: MÉXICO,<br />

Guerrero, Acapulco, A. Humboldt & A. Bonpland s.n. (holotype: P; photograph<br />

seen).<br />

Slender, climbing or trailing, perennial vine 3 m long or more, minutely<br />

antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout (except on ovary) with unicellular,<br />

curved trichomes, 0.05-0.13 mm long, 0.02 mm wide. Flowering stems somewhat<br />

compressed and two-edged, red (4/12) when young, 1.1-2.8 mm in diameter,<br />

with the base somewhat woody and cork-covered. Stipules asymmetrically<br />

narrowly ovate-falcate, slightly attenuate, longitudinally striate-nerved, 2.5-7.9<br />

mm long, 0.5-1.4 mm wide, <strong>of</strong>ten red (5R 4/12) at flowering nodes; petioles 1.1-<br />

7.6 cm long, inserted 0.4-22.0 mm from the basal margins <strong>of</strong> the peltate blades,

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