Passiflora multiflora L.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Passifloraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Scarcely woody vine, 2-5(-10) m long, all parts tomentose, many-branched along main stem; stems cylindrical, green, tomentose. Leaf blades 5-12 x 2-3 cm, oblong to lanceolate, chartaceous, unlobed, tomentose, the apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, the base obtuse or rounded, the margins entire; petioles 4 - 10 mm long, with a pair of discoid glands near the blade; stipules filiform, 3-5 mm long. Flowers hanging, 2-6 clustered in leaf axils, subtended by a single subulate bract; the peduncles 5-15 mm long, tomentose; bracts and bracteoles subulate, minute. Sepals elliptic, green, ca. 3.5 x 1.5 mm; petals linear, white, 3.5 x 0.8 mm; corona of numerous yellowish, filiform segments, ca. 2.5 mm long; gynophore cylindrical, enlarged at base, 0.7-0.8 mm long; stamens 5, yellowish, spreading; ovary ellipsoid, green, the styles club-shaped, greenish, ascending, ca. 1 mm long, the stigmas capitate-bilobed, yellow. Berry fleshy, oblate, 6-8 mm diam., dull green, glabrous. Seeds numerous, nearly lenticular, wrinkled, ca. 2 mm long, light brown.
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Distribution
An occasional vine of dry to moist forests. Bordeaux (A3857). Also on Tortola; Puerto Rico, Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola.
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