Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba ... - Passion Flowers

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very dark reddish purple, ratio of coronal rows 4-7 to third coronal row length
0.51-0.62(-0.90); operculum 0.3-0.4 mm long, denticulate, very dark reddish
purple, nectary absent; limen absent, limen floor 2.8-4.1(-5.7) mm in diameter,
very dark reddish purple; androgynophore appearing absent, or 0.3-1.7 mm long,
0.9-1.8 mm wide; free portions of the staminal filaments 1.9-3.4 mm long, 0.5-0.8
mm wide, linear, very dark reddish purple; anthers 1.3-2.0 mm long, 0.7-1.4 mm
wide, introrse at anthesis with their axes maintained more or less parallel to the
filament, anthers dehiscing distally; styles 1.8-3.1 mm long including stigmas,
0.3-0.5 mm wide, very dark reddish purple or greenish yellow with very dark
reddish purple tinge toward base; stigmas 0.9-1.4 mm in diameter; ovary 1.7-2.4
mm long, 1.2-1.3 mm wide, widely ellipsoid to globose, greenish yellow. Berry
26.0 mm long, 14.0 mm wide, ovoid to obovoid, greenish yellow with white spots,
becoming soft at the base at maturity. Seeds 30-40, elliptic to slightly obovate in
outline, 5.0-5.5 mm long, 2.0-2.2 mm wide, 1.3-1.8 mm thick, acute at both ends,
reticulate-foveate with each face marked with 20-22 foveae. Germination type
epigeal. Chromosome number: 2n=12 (MacDougal, 1992). Fig. 8.36-8.37.
Distribution and Ecology
México, in the states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán. Tropical
semideciduous forests (selva mediana subcaducifolia and selva mediana
subperennifolia); growing in shrubs or trailing along the ground on soil of little
depth, lying directly on top of limestone; 0-23 m. Flowering and fruiting
September to June.