Passiflora pallida L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Passifloraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A slender vine, with nearly glabrous or pubescent foliage. Leaves ovate to linear, 6-15 cm. long, eiliate, 5-nerved at the broadly cuneate or cordate base, entire, toothed, or 3-lobed to above the middle, the lobes ovate or triangular, acute or acuminate, the middle one much the larger; petioles 5-15 mm. long, each with 2 glands at or above the middle; peduncles surpassing the petioles, commonly in pairs; calyx greenish, 2-2.5 cm. broad; sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; 8-12 mm. long; corolla wanting; crown-filaments purple at the base, shorter than the sepals; berries subglobose or oval, 10-12 mm. in diameter.
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Discussion
The species consists of a large number of races, glabrous or pubescent, the leaves varying from linear-lanceolate to nearly orbicular, and the fruit from globose to ellipsoid. Referred to by Hitchcock as P. villosa Macf. Juniper-berry. Small Passion-flower. Catesby, 2 : pi. 51.
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Distribution
Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and the Berry Islands to East Caicos, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda; Florida; West Indies; continental tropical America.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Berry Islands Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|