Passiflora foetida L

Rome, Maxime, MacDOUGAL, John M., Svoboda, Harlan T. & COPPENS D’EECKENBRUGGE, Geo, 2024, A revised and annotated checklist of the genus Passiflora L. in French Guiana, Adansonia (3) 46 (20), pp. 197-221 : 214-215

Passiflora foetida L .

Species Plantarum 2: 959 ( Linnaeus 1753). — Granadilla foetida (L.) Gaertn ., De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 289 ( Gaertner 1788).— Tripsilina foetida (L.) Raf., Flora Telluriana 4 (7): 103 ( Rafinesque 1836) .— Dysosmia foetida (L.) M.Roem., Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis Synopses Monographicae 2: 149 ( Roemer 1846) .

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Country unknown • Without location; without date; Anonymous s.n.; lecto-, LINN [ LINN1070.24 ], designated by Killip (1938) .

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Savane Brigandin ; 1.VI.2015; R. Girault & J. Sutra 867; CAY[ CAY213759 ].

DISTRIBUTION. — Throughout the Neotropics and introduced pantropically.

NOTE

Passiflora foetida (s.l.) is a widely distributed and highly variable species complex in section Dysosmia that can be found in disturbed areas throughout French Guiana. Here we also recognize two additional species of sect. Dysosmia , P. hispida and P. moritziana , that are sometimes considered varieties of P. foetida .