Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Passionflower, Velcro Passionflower
Description
Family Passifloraceae
Climbing
herbs or lianas with axillary
tendrils
, rarely shrubs
or trees
, vegetative
ramification
through a supra-axillary
bud. Leaves alternate (rarely subopposite), spirally arranged
, simple
or rarely compound
, stipulate
or not, petiolate
, petiole
or base
of blade
often with 1 to many glands
; leaf blade entire or lobed
, venation
pinnate or palmate, often with glands on margin
and abaxial
surface. Inflorescence cymose
, axillary, sessile or pedunculate
, primary
axis often a tendril, secondary axis often reduced; bracts minute to foliaceous
, sometimes glandular
. Pedicels articulate
distal to bracts. Flowers mostly actinomorphic
, bisexual
, functionally unisexual
, or polygamous; perianth persistent
, segments free
or partially fused at base. Sepals (3-) 5(or 6) . Petals (3-) 5(or 6), imbricate. Corona
inserted
on hypanthium, composed of filaments
or hairs
often in multiple
series. Stamens (4 or) 5(-60), inserted on androgynophore
or at base of hypanthium; filaments free to base or sometimes partially fused; anthers
dorsifixed
, 2-celled, dehiscing via longitudinal
slits, sometimes with apical appendage
. Ovary (1-) 3(-5) -carpellate, superior, 1-loculed, sessile or stipitate
on elongate
androgynophore; placentation parietal
; ovules many, anatropous
; styles (1-) 3(-5), free to partially fused at base; stigmas globose
, capitate, papillate
, or divided
. Fruit a berry or loculicidally 3(-5) -valved capsule. Seeds numerous
, compressed
, often beaked
, enclosed by fleshy
aril; testa reticulate
or pitted
; endosperm copious
, oily; embryo straight; cotyledons foliaceous.
About 16 genera and 660 species: mainly in tropical
and subtropical
areas, particularly diverse
in the New World tropics; two genera and 23 species (seven endemic, seven introduced
) in China.[1]
Genus Passiflora
Herbaceous or woody perennial
vines
, rarely shrubs
or trees
. Leaves simple
or rarely compound
, alternate (subopposite in one species), entire or dissected
, petiolate
, usually with extra-floral
nectaries on petiole
and/or blade
; stipules linear
to leaflike, often glandular
. Inflorescence axillary
, cymose
; peduncle often highly reduced or absent, central axis developed into a tendril
, secondary axes often highly reduced to 1 or 2 flowers; bracts minute to foliaceous
, sometimes glandular. Flowers bisexual
(rarely plants
dioecious) . Hypanthium broad to campanulate
. Sepals 5, often petaloid
, sometimes with a subapical
projection. Petals 5 (rarely absent) . Corona
present at base
of perianth in one to several series of showy filaments
; innermost series (operculum) membranous, partially to entirely fused, margin
entire or fimbriate, often incurved
over nectar chamber; extra-staminal nectariferous
disk (limen
) present around base of androgynophore
, fused to base of hypanthium. Stamens (4 or) 5(-8) ; filaments free
(rarely connate
into a tube
around ovary) ; anthers
linear or oblong
, dorsifixed
, versatile. Ovary on androgynophore, stipitate
or sessile, 3(-5) -carpellate; styles 3(-5), free; stigmas capitate. Fruit a berry (rarely a dehiscent
capsule) . Seeds arillate
, compressed
, testa pitted
; endosperm oily, abundant; embryo straight; cotyledons elliptic
or oblong-elliptic; germination epigeal (rarely hypogeal) .
About 520 species: mainly in tropical
America and tropical Asia; 20 species (seven endemic, seven introduced
) in China.[2]
Physical Description
Flowers: Flower Color: near white, pale pink, white
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,524 meters (0 to 8,281 feet).[3]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
)
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
)
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
)
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
)
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
)
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
)
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Violanae
(
)
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Malpighiales
(
)
- C. Martius, 1835
- Family:
Passifloraceae
(
)
- A.L. de Jussieu ex Roussel, 1806, nom. cons.
- Passion-Flower Family
- Subfamily:
Passifloroideae
(
)
- Tribe:
Passifloreae
(
)
- Genus:
Passiflora
(
)
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Passionflower
- Specific epithet:
adenopoda
- DC.
- Botanical name: - Passiflora adenopoda DC.
- Specific epithet:
adenopoda
- DC.
- Genus:
Passiflora
(
- Tribe:
Passifloreae
(
- Subfamily:
Passifloroideae
(
- Family:
Passifloraceae
(
- Order:
Malpighiales
(
- Superorder:
Violanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: DC. Publication
: Prodr. (DC.) 3: 330 1828 [mid
Mar 1828]
A tentatively accepted name
in the RHS
Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Passiflora
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 265 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
P. actinea (Passion Flower) · P. adenopoda (Passionflower) · P. affinis (Bracted Passion-Flower) · P. alata (Passionflower) · P. alata var. brasiliana (Wingstem Passionflower) · P. alata var. latifolia (Wingstem Passionflower) · P. allantophylla (Passionflower) · P. amalocarpa (Passionflower) · P. amethyst (Lavender Lady) · P. amethystina (Passion Flower) · P. amethystina 'Minas Gerais' (Passionflower) · P. amoena (Charming Passionflower) · P. ampullacea (Passion Flower) · P. anadenia (Tropical Passionflower) · P. anfracta (Passionflower) · P. antioquiensis (Passionflower) · P. antioquiensis var. trisecta (Banana Passionfruit) · P. apetala (Passion Flower) · P. arbelaezii (Passionflower) · P. arborea (Passionflower) · P. arida (Passion Flower) · P. astrophea (Passion Flower) · P. atropurpurea (Passion Flower) · P. aurantia (Passionflower) · P. auriculata (Passionflower) · P. belotii (Belot's Passionflower) · P. berteriana (Pasionaria De Cercas) · P. bicornis (Passion Flower Passiflora Bicornis) · P. biflora (Passion Vine) · P. bilobata (Twolobe Passionflower) · P. boenderi (Passion Flower) · P. bryonioides (Cupped Passion-Flower) · P. caerulea (Blue Passion Flower) · P. caerulea var. angustifolia (Blue-Crown Passionflower) · P. caerulea var. glauca (Blue-Crown Passionflower) · P. caerulea var. imbricata (Blue-Crown Passionflower) · P. caerulea var. regnellii (Blue-Crown Passionflower) · P. caerulea 'Clear Sky' (Blue Passion Flower) · P. caerulea 'Constance Eliott' (Passionflower 'constance Eliot') · P. caerulea 'Constance Elliott' (Blue Passion Flower) · P. caerulea 'Spyder' (Blue Crown Passion Flower) · P. caerulea 'Waterloo Blue' (Blue Passion Flower) · P. caeruleo-racemosa (Passionflower) · P. candida (Passionflower) · P. capsularis (Passion Flower) · P. ciliata (Fetid Passionflower) · P. ciliata var. riparia (Fringed Passionflower) · P. ciliata var. riparia C.Wright (Fringed Passionflower) · P. cincinnata (Crato Passionvine) · P. cincinnata var. imbricata (Crato Passionvine) · P. cincinnata var. minor (Crato Passionvine) · P. cinnabarina (Passionflower) · P. citrifolia (Passion Flower) · P. citrina (Citrus-Yellow Passion Flower) · P. coccinea (Passionflower) · P. coccinea 'Maui' (Passionflower) · P. colinvauxii (Colinvauxs Passion Flower) · P. colombiana (Passion Flower) · P. colvillii (Colville's Passionflower) · P. coriacea (Bat-Leaf Passion Flower) · P. cumbalensis (Rosy Passion Fruit) · P. cuprea (Passion Flower) · P. cyanea (Passion Flower) · P. dioscoreifolia (Passionflower) · P. discophora (Passionflowers) · P. edulis (Byron Beauty Hybrid Passionflower) · P. edulis f. edulis (Purple Passionfruit) · P. edulis f. flavicarpa (Brown-Seeded Passionfruit) · P. edulis var. flavicarpa (Yellow Passion Fruit Maracuja) · P. edulis var. kerii (Purple Granadilla) · P. edulis var. pomifera (Purple Granadilla) · P. edulis var. rubricaulis (Purple Granadilla) · P. edulis 'Frederick' (Granadilla) · P. edulis 'Golden Star' (Purple Granadilla 'golden Star') · P. edulis 'Mccain' (Granadilla) · P. edulis 'Nancy Garrison' (Granadilla) · P. filipes (Slender Passion-Flower) · P. fimbriatistipula (Passion Flower) · P. foetida (Fetid Passionflower) · P. foetida f. latifolia (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida f. suberecta (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida L. var. arizonica Killip (Arizona Passionflower) · P. foetida L. var. foetida L. (Fetid Passionflower) · P. foetida L. var. gossypiifolia (Desv. ex Ham.) Mast. (Cottonleaf Passionflower) · P. foetida L. var. isthmia Killip (Scarletfruit Passionflower) · P. foetida L. var. lanuginosa Killip (Scarletfruit Passionflower) · P. foetida var. acapulcensis (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. arida (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. arizonica (Arizonia Passionflower) · P. foetida var. balansae (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. ciliata (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. eliasii (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. fluminensis (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. foetida (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. galapagensis (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. gardneri (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. glaziovii (Stinking Passionflower) · P. foetida var. gossypifolia (Cottonleaf Passionflower) · P. foetida var. gossypiifolia (Cottonleaf Passionflower) · P. foetida var. hirsuta (Goat-Scented Passionflower)
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Further Reading
- Comparative ecology and mimetic relationships of ithomiine butterflies in eastern Ecuador / by Boyce Alexander Drummond III. 1976. url p. 269.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 35 1968 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 5.
- Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geo by L.H. Bailey assisted by Wilhelm Miller, PH. D., associate editor, and many expert cultivators and botanists. Illustrated with nearly three thousand engravings and one hundred and forty-five full-pa New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. url p. 1222.
- Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 727.
- Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. 24 1961 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1961. url p. 119.
- Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1941 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] url p. 98.
- Flora, Tehuacán Valley [by] C. Earle Smith, Jr. 31 1965 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. url p. 112.
- Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 85.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 202.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 446.
- The American species of Passifloraceae, by Ellsworth P. Killip. 19 1938 [Chicago]1938. url p. 117, p. 222, p. 223, p. 224, p. 26.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 122, p. 124.
- The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 2486.
- Tropical American plants, IX / Louis O. Williams. 31 1968 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. url p. 5.
- Bao Shihying. 1999. Passifloraceae. In: Ku Tsuechih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(1): 97-120.
- Killip, The American Species of Passifloraceae (Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 19(1-2): 1-331, 333-613. 1938);
- de Wilde, A monograph of the genus Adenia Forsk. (Passifloraceae) (Meded. Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen 71(18): 1-281. 1971)
- de Wilde, The Indigenous Old World Passifloras (Blumea 20: 227-250. 1973 ["1972"]).
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5847715
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15728611
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:674754-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 674754-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 879212
Footnotes
- Yinzheng Wang, Shawn E. Krosnick, Peter Møller Jørgensen & David Hearn "Passifloraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 141. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Yinzheng Wang, Shawn E. Krosnick & Peter Møller Jørgensen "Passiflora". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 141. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 694.950 meters (2,280.020 feet), Standard Deviation = 973.070 based on 56 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
