Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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free, 36-50, 2.2-4.0 mm long, basally connate 1.2-2.5 mm, 0.1-0.4 mm wide,
linear to narrowly ovate, erect, greenish yellow, ratio of coronal (portion not
adnate to sepal) to sepal (free portion) length 0.09-0.35; rarely a trace second
coronal row of colorless filaments may be present just outside the operculum;
operculum 3.0-4.6 mm long, plicate, greenish yellow, the margin with narrow
minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.3-3.1 mm high, 1.1-2.0 mm wide, sulcate;
limen erect, 0.8-1.7 mm high, 0.1-0.5 mm wide, greenish yellow, crenulate-lobed,
very close to the base of the androgynophore, limen floor 0.6-2.1 mm in
diameter, greenish yellow; androgynophore 17.4-26.1 mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm
wide, greenish yellow; free portions of the staminal filaments 2.6-5.3 mm long,
0.3-0.7 mm wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 4.0-5.9 mm long, 0.6-2.4 mm
wide, pollen presented laterally; styles 3.1-6.2 mm long including stigmas, 0.2-0.5
mm wide, greenish yellow; stigmas 0.9-1.7 mm in diameter; ovary 2.2-5.3 mm
long, 1.1-3.5 mm wide, ellipsoid to fusiform, greenish yellow, glabrous. Berry
15.5-24.0 mm long, 12.9-19.0 mm wide, fusiform to ovoid, very dark purple.
Seeds 39-53, flattened, obovate in outline, 4.0-5.0 mm long, 2.4-3.6 mm wide,
1.4-2.0 mm thick, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each side marked
with 15-18 foveae, sometimes pale in color at maturity. Germination epigeal.
Fig. 8.24-8.26.
Distribution and Ecology
México, in the Pacific lowlands and foothills of southern Michoacán, Guerrero
and Oaxaca. Disturbed tropical deciduous or semideciduous low and medium
forests (selva baja caducifolia and selva mediana subcaducifolia); growing on