Passiflora mixta L.f.
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Passiflora mixta L.f. (1781)
Passiflora mixta L.f.
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L.f.
L.f.
1781
408
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Passiflora mixta L.f.
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Passiflora mixta
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Passiflora mixta L.f.
Vigorous vine, often high-climbing; shoots densely hairy, angular when young. Lvs 3-lobed; petioles to c. 6 cm long, densely hairy, with 2-8, sessile or subsessile glands; stipules 2-4 mm wide, broad-ovate, toothed, with a single long bristle; lamina lobes subequal, mostly 6-12 cm long, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, serrate, extending ?-3/4 of distance in from the margin, soon glabrous above excepting midrib, with veins remaining moderately to densely hairy below, otherwise glabrous or glabrate, acute to apiculate; middle lobe, 2-4 cm wide. Fls ☿, solitary. Pedicels > petioles. Bracts 3-4 cm long, united for ⅓-⅔, puberulent, entire. Hypanthium 6-8 cm long, glabrous outside. Perianth segments 4-6.5 cm long, elliptic; sepals pink inside, greenish outside, with short horn near apex; petals pink; corona a ring of purple, white-tipped scales (sometimes purple rim faint) 1-3 mm long. Filaments 1-2 cm long, whitish, > anthers; anthers 6-10 mm long. Ovary white-villous. Fr. usually 8-9 × 3.5-4 cm, ellipsoid, orange, or yellowish orange, densely hairy; pulp orange, sweet, edible. Seed 4-5 mm long, ellipsoid to obovoid, dark reddish, alveolate.
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Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
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1 January 2000
30 April 2004