Passiflora subgen. Astrophea (DC.) Masters

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 : 202

Passiflora subgen. Astrophea (DC.) Masters

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27 (4): 629 ( Masters 1871).

INCLUDED SPECIES. — Ten species. Shrubs, trees, to lianas, entire leaf blades, inconspicuous stipules, two glands at the apex of the petiole or at the base of the midrib, absent or inconspicuous marginal or submarginal glands, inconspicuous bracts, flowers solitary, in pairs or in inflorescences, the inflorescences sometimes tendrillate; flowers white with often yellow corona or with evident tubular pink to purple or red to orange hypanthium, ( Feuillet & MacDougal 2007) and 3-costate, hexagonal or globular berry-like fruits ( Feuillet 2002) and persistent styles.