Passiflora nitida Kunth

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

Passiflora nitida Kunth

Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 2: 130 ( Kunth 1817).

— Type specimen: Venezuela • Javita ; A. J. A. Bonpland & F. W. H. A. von Humboldt s.n.; holo-, P [ P00669973 ]; iso-, B [destroyed].

Passiflora nymphaeoides H.Karst., Linnaea 30: 165 ( Karsten 1859).

Passiflora brauliensis Kuethe, R. Barboza & L. Alvarez, Phytotaxa 584 (2): 121 ( Kuethe et al. 2023).

Passiflora coloranigra Kuethe & Meerman, Phytotaxa 561 (2): 191 ( Kuethe & Meerman 2022).

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Mana village ; 1.II.1852; P. A. Sagot s.n.; P[P04881490].

DISTRIBUTION. — Present both in the wild and under cultivation across neotropical lowlands from Amazonia to southern Mexico, P. nitida is among the most widespread species of subgenus Passiflora .

NOTE

In French Guiana, it is cultivated in several villages such as Cacao and Mana. The fruits are sold on the market in Cayenne and are called “kouzou”. It is often difficult to distinguish between wild and feral forest specimens.