Passiflora viridescens

Passiflora viridescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Genus: Passiflora
Species: P. viridescens
Binomial name
Passiflora viridescens
L.K. Escobar
Synonyms[1]
  • Passiflora cuspidifolia Holm-Nielson 1988, auct non Harms 1893[2][3]
  • Passiflora ulmeri Schwerdtfeger

Passiflora viridescens is a plant species native to Perú 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. Fruits are elliptical to egg-shaped, up to 6 cm long, green with minute hairs.[3][6][7][8][9][10]

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. ↑ Escobar, Linda Katherine Albert de. 1989. Two new species of Passiflora (Passifloraceae) from South America. Phytologia 66:80-82.
  7. ↑ photo of holotype of Passiflora viridescens at Missouri Botanical Garden
  8. ↑ Schwerdtfeger, Michael, 1997. Haussknechtia 6: 46.
  9. ↑ photo of isotype of Passiflora ulmeri at Missouri Botanical Garden
  10. ↑ Field Museum Amostras de Herbário da Neotrópica
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