Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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Vine, pubescent with unicellular curved trichomes on petiole, adaxial leaf
surface, and stipules 0.28-0.38 mm long, 0.03 mm wide, also minutely antrorsely
appressed-puberulent throughout with unicellular, curved trichomes, 0.06-0.08
mm long, 0.02 mm wide. Flowering stems terete or somewhat compressed, 1.5-
1.8 mm in diameter. Stipules ovate, acute to acuminate, 6.3-7.5 mm long, 2.5-
3.5 mm wide; petioles 2.3-2.6 cm long, commonly bearing at or just below the
middle (0.44-0.50 of the distance from the base toward the apex of the petiole) 2,
elliptic, opposite to subopposite, sessile, discoid nectaries with the rims slightly
raised, 1.0-1.1 mm wide (on the widest axis), 0.5-0.6 mm high. Laminas 3.8-5.3
cm long, 12.4-14.2 cm wide, membranous, subpeltate or slightly peltate (the
distance from leaf base to point of petiole insertion 1.0-1.7 mm), transversely
elliptic, 3-lobed 0.02-0.10 of the distance to the leaf base at the deepest sinus,
lateral lobes elliptic, acute to attenuate, 6.9-7.5 cm long, 2.6-4.2 cm wide, central
lobe elliptic or present as an obtuse to rounded tip, central vein 3.7-5.2 cm long
(measured from point of petiole insertion to the leaf apex), angle between the
lateral lobes 109-130°, ratio of lateral lobe to central vein length 1.41-1.86,
margins entire, hyaline, primary veins 3, diverging and branching above base,
laminar nectaries absent; tendril 0.7-0.9 mm wide, present at flowering node.
Pedicels 11.9-13.0 mm long in fruit, 0.5 mm wide, paired in the leaf axils; bract(s)
absent. Flowers not seen. Stipe 6.9-8.5 mm long in fruit, 0.5-0.6 mm wide.
Berry 25.0-26.0 mm long, 24.0-26.0 mm wide, ellipsoid to globose, very dark
purple. Seeds ca. 20, obovate in outline, 4.6-4.9 mm long, 2.9-3.1 mm wide, 2.0-