Passiflora quadrangularis 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 : 211-212

Passiflora quadrangularis L .

Systema Naturae, ed. 10., 2: 1248 ( Linnaeus 1759). — Granadilla quadrangularis (L.) Medik ., Ueber einige künstliche Geschlechter aus der Malven-Familie 97. 1787. —

Type specimen: Jamaica • Without location; without date; P. Browne s.n.; lecto-, LINN [ LINN373.15 ], designated by Cervi (1997).

Passiflora sulcata Jacq., Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia 232 ( Jacquin 1763). — Passiflora quadrangularis var. sulcata (Jacq.) DC ., Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 3: 328 ( Candolle 1828).

Passiflora tetragona M.Roem., Familiarum naturalium regni vegetabilis synopses monographicae 2: 165 ( Roemer 1846).

Passiflora macrocarpa Linden ex Mast., The Gardeners’ Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 1869: 1012 ( Masters 1869).

Passiflora macroceps Mast., The Gardeners’ Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 1012 ( Masters 1869).

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Oyapock basin, Saut Maripa; cultivated plant; 21.V.1985; M.-F. Prévost 1921; CAY[ CAY119977 ].

DISTRIBUTION. — Cultivated throughout tropical America, at elevations up to 2500 meters, its native region is uncertain ( Killip 1938).

NOTE

In French Guiana, it is anecdotally cultivated and occasionally sold on the markets under the name of “barbadine”.