Passiflora laurifolia 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

Passiflora laurifolia L.

Species Plantarum 2: 956 ( Linnaeus 1753). — Granadilla laurifolia (L.) Medik ., Ueber einige künstliche Geschlechter aus der Malven-Familie 97: 1787.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Plate 80 from Plumier Description des plantes d’Amérique ( Plumier 1693) (lecto-, designated by Rome & Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge 2018) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Introduced from the French West Indies , this species is only anecdotally cultivated in French Guiana.

NOTE

Long confused with Passiflora tinifolia , it is most easily distinguished by green bracts (vs purple in P. tinifolia ), however other morphological markers also contribute to the differentiation of both species ( Rome et al. 2024).