Passiflora hispida DC. ex Triana & 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 hispida DC. ex Triana & Planch.

Annales des Sciences naturelles, Botanique, sér. 5, 17: 172 ( Triana & Planchon 1873). — Passiflora foetida var. hispida (DC. ex Triana & Planch.) Killip in Gleason, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 58 (7): 408 ( Gleason 1931). —

Type specimen: France • Martinique, Saint-Pierre ; 4.V.1839; A. Steinheil 30; lecto-, P [ P04881879 ], designated by Svoboda et al. (2016).

Passiflora vesicaria L. , sensu Vanderplank (2013), non P. vesicaria L., Flora of Jamaica 20 ( Linnaeus 1759).

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Cayenne Island , Leblond Marsh; 2.IX.2009; O. Tostain & V. Pelletier 2521; CAY[ CAY101620 ].

DISTRIBUTION. — Throughout savannas and lowlands of the Neotropics and introduced pantropically.

NOTE

This species can be recognized from other species of section Dysosmia by its deep yellow to orange fruits at maturity. There is considerable confusion surrounding the identity of this taxon and its correct name, leading some to consider it a synonym of the resurrected name Passiflora vesicaria L. However , there is no indication that the name P. vesicaria should be applied or recircumscribed to include yellow- or orange-fruited plants.