PassifloraceaeSubfamily Passifloroideae
W/C = Wild Collected |
Passiflora cupraea L.
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Copper Passionflower
- Family: Passifloraceae Juss. ex Kunth.
- Country of Origin: coastal areas of eastern Cuba, Bahamas, Haiti
- Habitat: usually found climbing high over bushes and trees
- Description: Plant: glabrous; stem: angulate, striate; stipules: setaceous, up to 0.3 cm long, soon deciduous; petioles: slender, 0.5-1.3 cm long, without glands; leaves: unlobed, ovate to oblong, 2.5-7x1.5-5 cm, occasionally with some laminar nectaries, more or less rounded at base, entire; peduncles: solitary or in pairs, slender, up to 2.5 cm long; bracts: minute, soon deciduous; flowers: reddish or red-brown, 4.5-5.5 cm diameter; sepals: linear-oblong, red-brown, greenish outside, 1.5-2.5x0.3-0.4 cm; petals: linear-oblong, red-brown, 1-1.8x0.2-0.3 cm; corona: 1 series, filaments 0.3-0.5 cm long and up to 0.1 cm wide, purplish brown and orange at the apex; ovary: ovoid, glabrous; fruit: globose, blackish, ca. 1cm diameter; seeds: nearly cuneate, 0.4x0.2 cm, ovoid, transversely sulcate.
- Culture: likes warm conditions
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 200700185
- Source: Doug Goldman - Harvard
- Accession Date: 09-26-2007
- Bench: 1318 - NEO:Guyana Highlands A
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-06-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Malpighiales
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- Family: Passifloraceae
- SubFamily: Passifloroideae
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References:
- Ulmer, MacDougal, Ulmer. Passionflowers of the World, Timber Press, 2004
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