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Passiflora vespertilio

Botanic Family

Passifloraceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Passion Flower (Cr)

Geographical Habitats

• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Bolivia
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima
• Sergipe - Brazil
• Colombia
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riversides

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Herbaceous pubescent climber with glabrous or finely puberulent stems, simple reddish-brown tendrils. Coriaceous bat-wing leaves 2-3-lobed, glabrous above & glabrous to slightly puberulent beneath. 50mm diameter yellowish or green-white to white flowers to 50mm wide with setaceous bracts, 2 ranked white corona filaments, outer filaments to 15mm long, inner ones shoter. 19mm x 16mm deep purple fruits.

Further References

• Vanderplank 1996
• Mobot
• NHN
• FB
• Ulmer & MacDougal
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE