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Passiflora mixta L.f.

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New Zealand
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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.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.
Passiflora mixta L.f.

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Passiflora mixta L.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Passiflora mixta L.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Passiflora mixta L.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Passiflora mixta L.f.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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f596b191-f96a-4007-ac3a-2b1bce44ca1c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 April 2004
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