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Passiflora foetida L. var. hispida (DC. ex Triana & Planch.) Killip
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Distribution: A native of tropical and South America, now naturalized in Tropical Africa, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, South-East Asia and China.
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Passiflora foetida (which is comprised of many taxonomic varieties) is native to the New World from Arizona and Texas in the U.S.A. through the tropics to the Galapagos Islands; it has become widely naturalized in the Old World tropics.
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Flower
Solitary, axillary; white, fragrant. Flowering from November-May.
Fruit
A subglobose berry; orange when ripe; seeds many, ellipsoid, deeply pitted. Fruiting February onwards.
Field tips
Bracts and bracteoles deeply pinnatisect, glandular pubescent, totally cover the fruits.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate distichous
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Orbicular
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Cordate
Leaf Margin
Dentate
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Whole plant: Fresh plant is boiled and the liquid used as a children's anthelmintic, for intestinal nematodes and flatworms. Decoction of dried plant drunk to treat colds and chest coughs. Used in the treatment of tuberculosis, worms, and for coughs and colds in NW Guyana. Leaf: Infusion for healing wounds.
Herbaceous vines, foul smelling. Stem slender, striate, spreading pubescent. Stipules partly clasping, deeply parted, glandular pilose; petiole 2-6 cm, without glands, pubescent, indumentum dense, spreading, glandular pilose; leaf blade broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, (3-)4.5-13 × (2.5-)4-12 cm, membranous, glandular ciliate, abaxially pubescent with small nectaries in distal part, adaxially sericeous, mixed with occasional glandular hairs, base cordate, 3-lobed or unlobed, margin irregularly undulate, apex acute. Inflorescence reduced to a single flower, opposite tendril; bracts 3, 2- or 3(or 4)-pinnatifid; lobes threadlike, glandular pilose apically. Flowers white or light purple with white spots or lines, 2-3 cm in diam. Sepals ca. 1.5 cm, awned. Petals ca. 1.5 cm. Corona 3-5-seriate, filamentous, two outer series ca. 1 cm, inner three series 1-2.5 mm; operculum 1-1.5 mm, membranous; disk cupular, 1-2 mm high; androgynophore 5-7 mm tall. Stamens coherent at base, flat; anthers oblong, ca. 4 mm. Ovary shortly stipitate, ellipsoid, ca. 6 mm, glabrous; styles 3(or 4), 5-6 mm; stigmas capitate. Berry orange or orange-red, ovoid-globose, 2-3 cm in diam., glabrous. Seeds many, light brown to black, elliptic, 3-4 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Apr-May of next year. 2n = 20.
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Comments: Fruit edible; leaves toxic. Weedy.
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Annual or rarely perennial herbaceous tendril climber. Stem and branches softly hispid. Leaves with 2-4 cm long, hispid, glandless petiole; lamina membranous, broad ovate, cordate or subcordate, 4-7 cm long, 3-5 cm broad, shallowly 3-lobed, lobes acute, with ciliate margins; stipules falcate, tripinnatisect, with gland tipped segments. Flowers solitary axillary, on up to 4 cm long peduncle, large with obnoxious odour, 4-6 cm across; bracts deeply tripinnatisect, segments filiform, gland tipped; hypanthium urceolate. Sepals 5, oblong, 2-2.5 cm long, white within, pale green without. Petals 5, oblong, as long as sepals, obtuse, mucronate, white. Corona multiseriate, purple to bluish purple. Stamens 5; anthers greenish yellow, c. 5 mm long. Ovary globose, somewhat pilose; styles clavate. Fruit ovoid-globose, c. 2 cm in diameter, orange yellow, glabrescent, enclosed by enlarged bracts.
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Indigenous Information: Fruits edible.
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Passiflora foetida L.
Bejuco poco leñoso, glandular pubescente, que alcanza 5 m de largo y trepa mediante zarcillos axilares. Tallos cilíndricos, levemente estriados, glandular pubescentes, con pelos glandulares viscosos, malolientes. Hojas alternas; láminas 5-12 × 5-10 cm, usualmente trilobadas, con el lóbulo central más largo que los laterales o con menos frecuencia simples, cartáceas, los lóbulos elípticos a ovados, con el ápice agudo o acuminado, la base cordiforme o sub-cordiforme, los márgenes crenados aserrados; ambas caras pubescentes; pecíolos delgados, 2-5.5 cm de largo, pelosos, eglandulares; estípulas laciniadas con numerosas glándulas marginales; zarcillos pubescentes, simples, 15 cm o más de largo. Flores axilares, solitarias o 2-3, sostenidas por un involucro de tres brácteas pinnatífidas, glandulares viscosas, 2-3 cm de largo; pedicelos 4-4.5 cm de largo, pubescentes. Sépalos 5, verdes, blancuzcos en la superficie interior, oblongos, 2-2.5 cm de largo, mucronatos en el ápice; pétalos blancos, oblongos, 2-2.5 cm de largo; corona multiseriada, los apéndices filiformes, 15-17 mm de largo, la serie más interna con una banda violeta en la base; ginóforo cilíndrico, verde, con manchas rojizas, ca. 7 mm de largo; estambres 5; ovario elipsoide, verde, dispersamente peloso, los estilos pelosos, los estigmas capitados. Baya coriácea o papirácea, ovoide, 1.5-2.5 cm de largo, anaranjada al madurar, cubierta por las brácteas persistentes; semillas numerosas, oblongas, truncadas en ambos extremos, foveadas, ca. 5 mm de largo, cubiertas por una matriz amarillenta.
Fenología: Florece y fructifica todo el año.
Estatus: Nativa, muy común.
Especimenes Estudiados: Acevedo-Rdgz., P. 772; 1948; 5186; 5333; 11229; Axelrod, F. 5050; Boom, B. 8008; Britton, N.L. 2244; Goll, G.P. 393; Heller, A.A. 978; 1029; 6119; Johnston, J.R. 225; Liogier, A.H. 9805; Sargent, F.H. 193; 573; Sintenis, P. 810; Underwood, L.M. 113; 346.
Young leaves and plant tips are edible. Dried leaves are used in tea in Vietnamese folk medicine.
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