Passiflora bigelovii Small

  • Authority

    Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Passifloraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Passiflora bigelovii Small

  • Description

    Species Description - A slender climbing vine with glabrous foliage. Leaves rather numerous; blades as long as broad or nearly so, 1-8 cm. broad, reticulated at maturity, deeply 3-lobed; middle lobe usually cuneate, again 3-lobed; lateral lobes unequally once or twice lobed, all lobes usually bristle-tipped: petioles 2-6 mm. long, with 2 glands at the base of the blade: peduncles surpassing the petioles: involucres wanting: calices about 2 cm. broad, greenish; sepals oblong, obtuse: corolla wanting: filaments of the crown shorter than the sepals: berries subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter.

  • Discussion

    Texas: Camp Green, Oct. 30. C. C. Parry, Mex. Bound. Surv., no. 393c; Mountains and rocky places on the Pecos, Sept. 10, 1852, J. M. Bigelow, Mex. Bound. Surv., no. 393d; San Diego, 1884, Mary B. Croft, no. 64.

  • Distribution

    In sandy or rocky soil, Texas.

    Texas United States of America North America|