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Passiflora spinosa

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

(Poeppig & Endlicher ) Masters

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Pasiflora (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• riverside
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Sep

Large woody glabrous vine to 15m with tendrils often reduced to stout spines, axillary spines or simple tendrils . Coriaceous leaves to 170mm x 90mm. Racemes to 250mm long with small bracts, to 4 flowers, red-orange flowers with yellow centre 75mm long, glabrous calyx tube to 50mm long, yellow corona filaments in 2 series. Green to yellow berries with light & dark green stripes.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• HUA
• Academia