Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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fruit greenish yellow, sometimes mottled with white or yellow. Seeds (27-)45-50(-
60), obovate in outline, 4.9-5.1 mm long, 3.0-3.1 mm wide, 1.9-2.0 mm thick,
acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with ca. 15-20
foveae. Fig. 8.29, 8.33-8.34.
Distribution and Ecology
Colombia in the division of Bolívar; Costa Rica in the provinces of Cartago,
Guanacaste, Herédia, Limón, and Puntarenas; Panamá in the Panamá Canal
Zone and provinces of Chiriquí, Coclé, Darien, Panamá, and San Blas. Growing
in shrubs or trees in secondary successional areas, along the edges of tropical
moist to premontane wet forests, and near the seashore, 0-1100 m altitude.
Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.
Vernacular Names
Ala de murciélago (Costa Rica), bejuco de blatijito (Colombia).
Additional Specimens Examined
Colombia. –BOLÍVAR: Torrecilla, near Turbaco, 150-300 m, Killip & Smith
14415 (GH, US). Costa Rica. –CARTAGO: Pejibaye, Lankester 1298 (F);
Pasture beside Río Pejibaye, 2 km SW of Taus, 750 m, Lent 2960 (F); Las
Vueltas (de Tucurrique), 635 m, Tonduz 12808 (US). –GUANACASTE: Parque
Nacional Guanacaste Estación Biología Volcán Cacao, 1100 m, Alvarado 28
(CR, MO); Cantón Liberia, Parque Nacional Guanacaste, Cordillera de
Guanacaste, Estación Cacao, 1100 m, Alvarado & IV Curso de Parataxonomos