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Passiflora gracilis

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

J. Jacquin ex Link

Common Names

• Annual Passion Flower
• Shunshun
• Hatillo (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Goiás
• Mato Grosso - Brazil
• Venezuela
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Ecuador

Natural Habitats

• Cloud forest.

Flowering Times

• Summer Oct

Fruiting Times

• Oct

Glabrous tendril vine with glabrous 3-lobed glandular leaves. 30mm diameter white and mauve flowers, inner filaments greenish, outer filaments white with violet bands, winged sepals. Scarlet glabrous fruits to 40mm long x 25mm,

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Vanderplank 1996
• P & R 1997
• FB
• Ulmer & MacDougal
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Standley