Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Passifloraceae
Passifloraceae
Description:
Species Description - Herbaceous, villous and glandular-viscid, trailing or climbing, sometimes 2.5 m. long. Leaves slender-petioled, broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular in outline, 3-lobed or 3-angled, flaccid, irregularly low-dentate, 3-12 cm. long, cordate or subcordate at the base, acute at the apex, the stipules 5-10 mm. long, pinnatisect; peduncles 1-3 in the axils, mostly longer than the petioles, not jointed; involucre of 3 finely pinnatisect bracts 2-4 em. long, the ultimate segments nearly filiform, gland-tipped; calyx 5-parted, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; petals white or pinkish, about as long as the calyx; crown pink, of three series of segments; berry ovoid, 2-4 cm. long, nearly dry when mature.
Species Description - Herbaceous, villous and glandular-viscid, trailing or climbing, sometimes 2.5 m. long. Leaves slender-petioled, broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular in outline, 3-lobed or 3-angled, flaccid, irregularly low-dentate, 3-12 cm. long, cordate or subcordate at the base, acute at the apex, the stipules 5-10 mm. long, pinnatisect; peduncles 1-3 in the axils, mostly longer than the petioles, not jointed; involucre of 3 finely pinnatisect bracts 2-4 em. long, the ultimate segments nearly filiform, gland-tipped; calyx 5-parted, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; petals white or pinkish, about as long as the calyx; crown pink, of three series of segments; berry ovoid, 2-4 cm. long, nearly dry when mature.
Distribution:
New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies| Texas United States of America North America|
New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies| Texas United States of America North America|