Passiflora retipetala Mast.

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 retipetala Mast.

Kew Bulletin 1893: 12 ( Masters 1893). —

Type specimen: Guyana • Mazaruni River; II.1890; G. S. Jenman 5791; holo-, K [ K000323285 ].

Passiflora lonchophora Harms, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 10: 813 (Harms 1929).

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Road between Régina and Saint-Georges-de-l’Oyapock, PK60; 20.V.2008; Rome 137; CAY[ CAY086636 ].

DISTRIBUTION. — From Venezuela to Guianas and northern Brazil. In French Guiana, it can be found along the road between Régina and Saint Georges-de-l’Oyapock.

NOTE

The type of P. retipetala is simple-leaved, but Sandwith (1960) showed that the species is heteroblastic, as a Trinidad specimen collected by Henry Flemming shows some stems with either simple or trilobed leaves. This leaf variation was also mentioned by Tillett (2003).