Passiflora viridescens

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Passiflora viridescens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Genus: Passiflora
Species:
P. viridescens
Binomial name
Passiflora viridescens
Synonyms [1]
  • Passiflora cuspidifoliaHolm-Nielson 1988, auct non Harms 1893 [2] [3]
  • Passiflora ulmeriSchwerdtfeger

Passiflora viridescens is a plant species native to Peru and Ecuador. [3] [4] [5]

Passiflora viridescens is a woody liana climbing over other vegetation to a height of over 8 m. Leaves are broadly lanceolate to ovate, up to 14 cm long, forming three points at the tip in a W-shaped pattern. Flowers are up to 10 cm in diameter, light green with purple styles. [6] The fruit is elliptical to egg-shaped, up to 6 cm long, green with minute hairs. [3] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Holm-Nielson, LB, PM Jørgensen, & JE Lawesson. 1988. Flora of Ecuador 31:1-130.
  3. 1 2 3 Jørgensen, PM, & JM MacDougal. 1997. Three new species of Passiflora (Passifloraceae) and notes on Passiflora viridescens. Novon 7:379-386
  4. ↑ Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286.
  5. ↑ Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador, Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  6. ↑ Ulmer, Thorsten; MacDougal, John M. (2004). Passiflora - Passionflowers of the World. Portland: Timber Press. p. 157.
  7. ↑ Escobar, Linda Katherine Albert de. 1989. Two new species of Passiflora (Passifloraceae) from South America. Phytologia 66:80-82.
  8. ↑ photo of holotype of Passiflora viridescens at Missouri Botanical Garden
  9. ↑ Schwerdtfeger, Michael, 1997. Haussknechtia 6: 46.
  10. ↑ photo of isotype of Passiflora ulmeri at Missouri Botanical Garden
  11. ↑ Field Museum Amostras de Herbário da Neotrópica
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