Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 1.9-2.9 mm long, 0.6-1.5(-1.9) mm wide;
styles 1.8-4.9(-5.4) mm long including stigmas, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, greenish
yellow; stigmas 0.8-1.7 mm in diameter; ovary 1.6-2.7 mm long, 1.1-2.1 mm
wide, widely ellipsoid to globose, greenish yellow. Berry (12.4-)18-23.1 mm long,
(13.4-)18.4-33.0 mm wide, globose, very dark purple. Seeds ca. 40-50, obovate
in outline, 1.8-4.8 mm long, 2.1-2.9 mm wide, 1.5-2.1 mm thick, acute at both
ends, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with ca. 12-17(-19) foveae.
Germination epigeal. Chromosome number n=6, 2n=12 (Beal, 1971; Snow &
MacDougal, 1993). Fig. 8.29, 8.35.
Distribution and Ecology
Belize in the districts of Belize, Cayo, Corozal, Orange Walk, Stann Creek,
and Toledo. El Salvador in the departments of Cabañas, La Libertad, San
Salvador, San Vicente, and Sonsonate. Guatemala in the departments of Alta
Verapaz, Chiquimula, Escuintla, Izabal, Petén, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, Santa
Rosa, and Suchitepéquez. Honduras in the departments of Atlántida, Colón,
Comayagua, Cortés, Gracias a Dios, and Santa Barbara. México in the states of
Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, and Veracruz.
Nicaragua in the departments of Chontales, Matagalpa, and Region Autonomista
Atlántico Norte. Growing in shrubs, trees or trailing on the ground in secondary
successional areas, along the edges of semideciduous to deciduous, dry to wet
tropical forests, both inland and near the seashore, 0-1171 m. Flowering and
fruiting throughout the year.