Passiflora multiflora L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Passifloraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Passiflora multiflora L.

  • Description

    Species Description - A somewhat woody, slender vine, climbing to a length of 6 m. or more, the stems and leaves finely pubescent or sometimes glabrous. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 5-12 cm. long, entire, pinnately veined and tripli nerved, reticulate-veined beneath, obtuse or acute and mucronulate at the apex, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, the short petiole 2-glandular at the top; peduncles 2-6 together in the axils, slender, jointed near the middle, 5-15 mm. long; involucre none; sepals oblong-lanceolate, greenish-yellow, about 6 mm. long; petals linear, white, shorter than the sepals; carpophore none; berry globose, 6-10 mm. in diameter.

  • Distribution

    Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros ; New Providence ; Eleuthera : Florida ; Cuba to Tortolo. Oblong-leaved Passion-flower.

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