Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Passifloraceae
Passifloraceae
Description:
Species Description - Herbaceous vine, 2-5 m long, many-branched along main stem, all parts pubescent-pilose; stems, petioles, veins, and peduncles reddish-tinged; stems slender, trigonous and striate. Leaf blades 4-12 x 4-12 cm, 2-lobed (less often with a third short, central lobe), chartaceous, softly pubescent, with 3 main veins from base, the margins entire, the lobes divergent, acute and mucronate, the base cordate; petioles 2-4 cm long, glandless; stipules subulate, ca. 5 mm long. Flowers ascending, solitary or paired in leaf axils; the peduncles 0.6-3 cm long, with a subulate bract at base. Sepals lanceolate, greenish to whitish within, pilose without, 1.3-2.5 cm long; petals linear, whitish, 0.9-1.5 cm long corona biseriate, the outer segments filiform, 1-1.3 cm long, pinkish to purple, the inner ones minute; gynophore cylindrical, 0.6-1 cm long; stamens 5, greenish, spreading; ovary ellipsoid globose, greenish, white-hirsute, the styles club-shaped, reflexed, the stigmas capitate. Fruit a fleshy, tardily dehiscent capsule, to 2 cm diam., widely ellipsoid to ovoid, red or pinkish red, pilose, with 8 longitudinal ribs. Seeds numerous, ovoid, transversely ridged, ca. 3 mm long, covered with a whitish aril.
Species Description - Herbaceous vine, 2-5 m long, many-branched along main stem, all parts pubescent-pilose; stems, petioles, veins, and peduncles reddish-tinged; stems slender, trigonous and striate. Leaf blades 4-12 x 4-12 cm, 2-lobed (less often with a third short, central lobe), chartaceous, softly pubescent, with 3 main veins from base, the margins entire, the lobes divergent, acute and mucronate, the base cordate; petioles 2-4 cm long, glandless; stipules subulate, ca. 5 mm long. Flowers ascending, solitary or paired in leaf axils; the peduncles 0.6-3 cm long, with a subulate bract at base. Sepals lanceolate, greenish to whitish within, pilose without, 1.3-2.5 cm long; petals linear, whitish, 0.9-1.5 cm long corona biseriate, the outer segments filiform, 1-1.3 cm long, pinkish to purple, the inner ones minute; gynophore cylindrical, 0.6-1 cm long; stamens 5, greenish, spreading; ovary ellipsoid globose, greenish, white-hirsute, the styles club-shaped, reflexed, the stigmas capitate. Fruit a fleshy, tardily dehiscent capsule, to 2 cm diam., widely ellipsoid to ovoid, red or pinkish red, pilose, with 8 longitudinal ribs. Seeds numerous, ovoid, transversely ridged, ca. 3 mm long, covered with a whitish aril.
Discussion:
Common name: bat wing.
Distribution:
Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America|
Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America|