Passiflora moritziana Planch.

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 : 215

Passiflora moritziana Planch.

Annales des Sciences naturelles, Botanique, sér. 5, 17: 175 ( Planchon 1873). — Passiflora foetida var. moritziana (Planch.) Killip in Pulle, Flora of Suriname 3 (1): 318 (Kilip 1937).

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Venezuela • [Aragua], Colonia Tovar ; without date; J. W. K. Moritz 437; holo-, P [ P00605763 ].

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Mana region , Hattes Beach; 15.II.1983; C. Feuillet 757; CAY [ CAY218098 , CAY218099 , CAY218100 ] .

DISTRIBUTION. — Coastal dunes throughout Northern South America from Colombia to French Guiana, and several southern Caribbean Islands.

NOTE

This species is sometimes recognized as a variety of P. foetida , but differs in its velutinous vegetative vestiture and simpler (e.g., usually once-pinnatisect) involucral bracts.