Passiflora kapiriensis Rome & Coppens

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 kapiriensis Rome & Coppens

Blumea 61 (1): 8-12 (Rome & Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge 2016).

TYPE SPECIMENS. — French Guiana • Along road from Régina to Saint-Georges-de-l’Oyapock ; 56 m a.s.l.; 4°4’25.32”N, 52°2’33.72”W; 10.IV.2008; M. Rome 48; holo-, CAY; iso-, LYJB, P [ P00971185 ]) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Recently described in French Guiana, this species has also been observed in Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil (Amazonas). In French Guiana, it is particularly abundant between Régina and Saint Georges-de-l’Oyapock (Rome & Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge 2016).

NOTE

Its edible fruit with sweet pulp can be 10 cm long or more. The type is the only known flowering specimen of this species. The latter flowers in November and it would be interesting to collect new specimens at this time to better understand the morphological variability of the flower.