Passiflora sexflora Juss.

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Species

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Characteristics

Plants rather slender, climbing, densely pubescent throughout. Leaves petio-late, simple, basifixed, subtrapezoid, the top saliently and acutely 2-lobed, occa-sionally with a smaller central lobe, the base rounded or slightly cordate, 3-9 cm. long, 4-10 cm. broad; petioles 1-3 cm. long, eglandular; stipules subulate, about 5 mm. long. Inflorescence bearing 2-10 greenish-white, purple-tinged flowers upon a common peduncle 2-3 cm. long, the associated tendril basal; pedicels 1.0-1.5 cm. long, subtended by an inconspicuous subulate bract. Flowers 2-3 cm. in diameter; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 8-15 mm. long, not corniculate; petals linear, about 10 mm. long; filaments of the corona in 2 series, the outer about as long as the petals. Fruit subglobose, 5-10 mm. in diameter, greenish yellow.
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Stems terete to slightly flattened, densely soft-hairy. Leaves not pungent, densely soft-hairy; stipules linear-setaceous, 2–5 × 0.5 mm, eglandular; petiole eglandular; blade roughly symmetric, 2–10 × 2–15 cm, 2–3-lobed, middle lobe shorter than lateral lobes, lobes unlobed, margins entire; abaxial fine veins prominently raised but obscured by pubescence, abaxial nectaries absent. Floral bracts linear-subulate to setaceous, 2–6 × 0.5–1 mm, margins entire or incised, eglandular. Flowers: floral tube absent; sepals greenish white, 9–13 × 2–3 mm; petals white, 5–9 × 1–2 mm; corona filament whorls 2, outer filaments purple basally, white apically, linear-filiform, terete, 5–9 mm. Berries blue-black, ovoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose to dorsiventrally compressed, 5–10 × 5–8 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support climber
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 29
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Germination treatment soaking
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Images

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Distribution

Passiflora sexflora world distribution map, present in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675461-1
WFO ID wfo-0000480111
COL ID 4DYX6
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Synonyms

Passiflora sexflora Cieca pannosa Lortetia sexflora Decaloba sexflora Disemma floribunda Passiflora floribunda Passiflora miraflorensis Passiflora pannosa Meioperis pannosa Passiflora isotriloba Passiflora triflora Passiflora rugosissima Passiflora melahelos Passiflora capsularis var. geminifolia