Passiflora

Passiflora View in CoL subgenus Deidamioides (Harms) Killip

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Passiflora View in CoL subgenus Deidamioides (Harms) Killip ( Killip 1938: 25). — Passiflora section Deidamioides Harms ( Harms 1923: 58).

(6 spp.)

Taxonomic description

Vines slender to woody; monoecious; tendrils missing or present (in most species), entire, adhesive disks present or absent; stipules minute (0.1–4 × 0.1–2 mm); glands 2–4–6, at the base of the lamina, below the lamina, near the base or middle of the petiole, or distributed in pairs near the petiole; leaves single, entire, or 5–9-composite; ocelli absent; main rib 1; inflorescences 1-flowered, 2-flowered, or racemose; bracts 3, very narrow (up to 2 mm), generally short (up to 5(7) mm) but longer in P. contracta Vitta (up to 20 mm), bracteoles present; hypanthium shortly campanulate, campanulate to infundibuliform; flowers whitish, white-green, yellow, with corona whitish to yellowish, reddish, lilac, and orange; sepals 5; petals 5; corona with 2–5 series of filaments; operculum plicate or not, apex laciniate, fimbriate; nectariferous disk present or absent; limen tubular, cupuliform, membranaceous; trochlea present or absent, stamens 5; styles 3–4, stigmas 3–4; fruit a berry ( Fig. 5 View Fig ).

Pollen description

Pollen grains medium or large; isopolar; subprolate, oblate-spheroidal, or prolate-spheroidal; polar area small; amb subcircular or subtriangular; 6-colporate; colpi long and narrow; endoapertures 3, lalongate, one for each pair of colpi or endoapertures 6, circular, one for each colpus; pontopercula 3, mesocolpia 3; sexine semitectate (muri continuous or discontinuous, simplicolumellate; lumina small (1.0–10.4 µm); bacula present). Sexine as thick as or thicker than nexine, total exine 2.4–5.6 µm ( Fig. 6 View Fig ).