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List of Passiflora species

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This is a list of species in the botanical genus Passiflora. There are in excess of 500 species mostly occurring in the Neotropics, but with a few species in the Nearctic and some others in Asia and Australasia. The list is incomplete.

Winged-stem passion flower (Passiflora alata)
Passiflora aurantia
Two flowered passion flower (Passiflora biflora)
Lemon-yellow passion flower, Passiflora citrina
Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis)
Wild water lemon Passiflora foetida
Passiflora glandulosa
Water lemon (Passiflora laurifolia)
Sweet granadilla (Passiflora ligularis)
Passiflora racemosa
Passiflora rubra
Passiflora pittieri

Species

Passiflora × decaisneana

Footnotes

† - principal culinary species fide Ulmer and MacDougall[1]
‡ - other species with edible fruits fide Ulmer and MacDougall[1]
¶ - Old World species fide Krosnick[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Torsten Ulmer and John Mochrie MacDougal, Passiflora: passionflowers of the world (2004)
  2. ^ Shawn Elizabeth Krosnick, Ph.D. thesis, Phylogenetic relationships and patterns of morphological evolution in the Old Word species of Passiflora (subgenus Decaloba: supersection Disemma and subgenus Tetrapathaea)