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Passiflora L.
EOL Text
Climbing herbs or lianes. Stipules 2 or 0. Leaves alternate, lobed or simple; petiole often with glands. Tendrils usually solitary in leaf axils, rarely 0. Flowers usually large and handsome, axillary, solitary or in racemes, bisexual, 5-merous. Bracts often 3, forming an involucre below the fl. Sepals often coloured inside, sometimes with horns on the back just below apex. Petals 5 or 0, membranous, more vividly coloured than the sepals. Corona present, variously shaped, simple or usually composed of filaments. Androgynophore usually distinct. Stamens 5, free. Styles 3. Fruit usually indehiscent, ± berry-like, spherical or ellipsoid, or rarely fusiform. The structure of the flower is described in this labelled image of Passiflora subpeltata. Species of the genus were called "Calvary Lesson" by Catholic missionaries in S America (Mabberley, 1997) and the explanation of that is also given on the same page.
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Passiflora
Bejucos herbáceos o leñosos que trepan mediante zarcillos axilares. Hojas alternas, simples o con menos frecuencia compuestas, enteras o palmatilobadas; pecíolos usualmente con nectarios extraflorales; estípulas usualmente pequeñas y deciduas. Flores usualmente grandes y vistosas, bisexuales o con menos frecuencia unisexuales, actinomorfas, producidas en cimas axilares o solitarias, a veces cubiertas en la base por un involucro de brácteas foliáceas; cáliz de (3-) 5 (8) sépalos libres o connatos en la base; pétalos tan numeroso como los sépalos, alternando con éstos rara vez ausentes; corona con 1 o varios verticilos de apéndices libres o connatos; estambres (4) 5, los filamentos libres o en un estípite (androginóforo); ovario súpero, usualmente sobre un ginóforo o rara vez sésil, unilocular, con (2) 3 (-5) carpelos, la placentación parietal, con numerosos óvulos, los estilos 3, libres o connatos en la base, los estigmas capitados u oblanceolados. Fruto una baya o con menos frecuencia una cápsula. Género con 400 especies, 350 de éstas nativas de América tropical, las restantes del paleotrópico.
Passiflora
Herbaceous or woody vines that climb by means of axillary tendrils. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or palmately lobed; petioles usually with extrafloral nectaries; stipules usually small and deciduous. Flowers usually large and showy, bisexual or less frequently unisexual, actinomorphic, produced in axillary cymes or solitary, sometimes covered at the base by an involucre of foliaceous bracts; hypanthium short or tubular; calyx of (3-)5(-8) sepals, free or connate at the base. Petals as numerous as the sepals, alternating with them, rarely absent; corona of 1 or several whorls of free or connate appendages; stamens (4)5, the filaments free or on a stipe (androgynophore), the anthers dehiscent by longitudinal valves; ovary superior, usually on a gynophore, or rarely sessile, unilocular, with (2)3(-5) carpels, the placentation parietal, with numerous ovules, the styles 3, free or connate at the base, the stigmas capitate or oblanceolate. Fruit a berry or less frequently a capsule. A genus of 400 species, 350 of these native to tropical America, the rest to the paleotropics.
Depth range based on 6 specimens in 2 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 0.5
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Foodplant / pathogen
Florida Passion Flower virus infects and damages stunted plant of Passiflora
In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
gregarious, immersed then erumpent pycnidium of Macrophoma coelomycetous anamorph of Macrophoma passifloricola is saprobic on dead stem of Passiflora
Remarks: season: 5
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Modified leaves assist climb: passion flower
Vetches and passion flowers climb other plants with the help of leaves modified into tendrils.
"Vetches and passion flowers have modified some of their leaves even more extremely and converted them into tendrils. These grope around in space until they touch the stem of another and swiftly coil around it." (Attenborough 1995:161-162)
Learn more about this functional adaptation.
- Attenborough, D. 1995. The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behavior. London: BBC Books. 320 p.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:354
Specimens with Sequences:386
Specimens with Barcodes:344
Species:137
Species With Barcodes:134
Public Records:282
Public Species:129
Public BINs:0
Leaf: Macerated leaves are used as an emollient by the Guyana Patamona.