Passiflora bryonioides
| Passiflora bryonioides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Passifloraceae |
| Genus: | Passiflora |
| Species: | P. bryonioides
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| Binomial name | |
| Passiflora bryonioides Kunth.
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Passiflora bryonioides, the cupped passionflower, is a plant in the genus Passiflora, family Passifloraceae. It is native to northern Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Guanajuato) and the south-western United States (Arizona).[3][4][5]
The plant is an annual, tendril-forming vine up to 2 m tall, with palmately-lobed leaves. Flowers are white with purple stripes along the petals. Fruits are pale green and ovoid.[6][7]
References
- ^ The Plant List
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund, in Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, et al., Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 2: 140–141. 1817
- ^ http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=2424
- ^ Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994b. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
- ^ MacDougal, John M. 2001. Passifloraceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
- ^ MacDougal, J. M. 1994. Revision of Passiflora subgenus Decaloba section Pseudodysosmia (Passifloraceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 41: 1–146.