Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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often red (4/12) at flowering nodes, commonly bearing in the proximal third, 0.12-
0.33(-0.55) 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, 0.9-2.5 mm wide (on the widest axis), 0.3-1.5 mm high.
Laminas 3.7-14.1 cm long, 1.6-19.6 cm wide, coriaceous, occasionally
variegated, conspicuously peltate, deeply 3-lobed 0.60-0.82 of the distance to the
leaf base, lateral lobes oblong to obovate, acute to rounded, 1.6-10.6 cm long,
1.0-5.8 cm wide, central lobes obovate, acute to rounded, 1.9-14.1 cm long, 1.0-
6.5 cm wide, narrowed at base, angle between the lateral lobes 117-180°, ratio of
lateral to central lobe length 0.60-1.34, margins entire, thickened, often red
(4/12), primary veins 3, diverging and branching above base, laminar nectaries
present or absent (rare), (0-)4(-7), submarginal, associated with the minor veins
of the abaxial surface, 0.3-1.1 mm in diameter, elliptic, sessile; tendril 0.3-1.1 mm
wide, present at flowering node, absent in inflorescence. Flowers borne in leaf
axils or terminal inflorescences; inflorescences 11.6-19.2 cm long, associated
reduced laminas 7.3-11.3 mm long, 0.8-1.9 mm wide. Pedicels 7.5-25.0 mm
long, 0.6-1.3 mm wide, paired in the leaf axils, often red (5R 4/12); bract(s)
absent; spur(s) absent. Tubular flowers 5.1-8.6 mm in diameter with stipe 4.5-
11.4 mm long, 0.9-1.5 mm wide, greenish yellow (5GY 8/6); hypanthium 5.1-8.6
mm in diameter; sepals 20.5-30.1 mm long, basally connate 5.8-15.4 mm, 1.3-
3.9 mm wide, linear to narrowly ovate, acute to rounded, abaxially and adaxially
greenish yellow (5GY 8/6), free portions of sepals reflexed at anthesis; petals
absent; coronal filaments in 1 series, adnate to the calyx tube until they become