Passiflora ciliata Aiton (1789: 310)

Svoboda, Harlan T., Macdougal, John M. & Ballard, Harvey E., 2016, Typifications and nomenclatural notes in Passiflora section Dysosmia (Passifloraceae), Phytotaxa 288 (2), pp. 101-119 : 102-105

3. Passiflora ciliata Aiton (1789: 310)

≡ Dysosmia ciliata (Aiton) M. Roemer (1846: 149) .

≡ Passiflora foetida Linnaeus var. ciliata (Aiton) Masters (1871: 631) .

Neotype (here designated):— JAMAICA. Cultivated in “Hon. Mrs. Barrington’s stove at Mongewell,” [Crowmarsh, England, UK], July 1791, collector and collection unknown ( LINN-HS1418.43 !) ( Fig. 2 ).

Notes: —For authorship purposes, the names published in Hortus Kewensis should be attributed to William Aiton alone as explained by Reveal (1985) and Art. 46, Ex. 37 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012).

The only documented, original material that Aiton (1789) used in circumscribing this species was listed as “Nat. of Jamaica; Cult. 1783 by Mrs. Norman.” Killip (1938: 509) made a note that this type specimen was at the Natural History Museum, London ( BM) then. Intense search for this sheet at both BM and the the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( K), however, failed to trace that specimen ( J. Gregson and S. Edwards, pers. comm.) .

A specimen from the herbarium of Sir James E. Smith , held at the Linnean Society of London ( LINN-HS1418.43 ; Fig. 2 ), is annotated as being P. ciliata and matches well with the protologue’s description and accompanying illustration. It is probable that Mrs. Barrington’s and Mrs. Norman’s plants were from the same seed introduction and were circulated around England in the late 1700s. This specimen is here designated as the neotype of the name .

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FIGURE 2. Designated neotype of Passiflora ciliata. Used by permission of the Linnean Society of London.