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Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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veins, 0.5-1.4 mm in diameter, circular to widely elliptic, sessile; juvenile leaves<br />

bilobed and variegated, the variegation seen in some clones at maturity; tendril<br />

0.3-1.0 mm wide, present at flowering node, absent in inflorescence. <strong>Flowers</strong><br />

borne in leaf axils or inflorescences; inflorescences 2.0-18.5(-25.1) cm long,<br />

associated reduced laminas 2.0-4.3 mm long, 1.5-3.1 mm wide. Pedicels 1.9-<br />

15.8 mm long, 0.4-0.9 mm wide, 2 per node; bract(s) absent; spur(s) absent.<br />

<strong>Flowers</strong> 18.4-33.4 mm in diameter with stipe 3.1-8.6(-9.4) mm long, 0.5-1.3 mm<br />

wide; hypanthium 5.4-8.2 mm in diameter; sepals 6.5-13.3 mm long, 2.9-6.3 mm<br />

wide, ovate-triangular, acute to rounded, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow;<br />

petals absent; coronal filaments in 2 series, the outer 40-51, 5.5-8.4 mm long,<br />

0.3-0.7(-0.8)mm wide, linear, more or less erect, very dark reddish purple (5RP<br />

3/2) on proximal third, greenish yellow (5GY 8/4) on middle third, yellow on distal<br />

third (5Y 8/10), ratio <strong>of</strong> outer coronal row to sepal length 0.59-0.94, the inner 27-<br />

40, 2.3-3.8mm long, 0.2-0.5(-0.6) mm wide, linear, capitate, erect, greenish<br />

yellow with a flush <strong>of</strong> very dark reddish purple at base, ratio <strong>of</strong> inner coronal row<br />

to outer coronal row length 0.35-0.52; operculum 1.2-2.0 mm long, plicate,<br />

greenish yellow with a flush <strong>of</strong> very dark reddish purple at base, the margin white<br />

with narrow minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.1-0.5(-0.6) mm high, 0.5-1.2(-2.9)<br />

mm wide; limen not recurved but inclined toward the operculum, 0.1-0.5(-0.7)<br />

mm high, 0.1-0.4(-0.5) mm wide, very dark red (5R 2.5/2), limen floor 2.5-5.1 mm<br />

in diameter, very dark red; androgynophore (2.1-)3.5-6.0 mm long, 0.4-1.3(-1.5)<br />

mm wide, the distal half dark red then greenish yellow with dark red spots and<br />

streaks; free portions <strong>of</strong> the staminal filaments 1.5-2.8 mm long, 0.5-0.9 mm

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