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Passiflora quadrangularis

L. (1759)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malpighiales Family: Passifloraceae Genus: Passiflora

giant granadilla

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Lianas.

Stems: Stems 4–angled.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades ovate to broadly elliptic–ovate, 7.8–13 cm long, 6–10.2 cm wide. Base shallowly cordate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins entire. Petioles with 4–6 usually paired, globose nectaries 1–2 mm in diameter. Stipules broadly ovate, 18–35 mm long.

Flowers: Flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual (perfect), campanulate, 7– 10 cm in diameter. Hypanthium 0.6–0.9 cm long; corona banded with purple, filamentous, wavy, ca. 3 cm long. Calyx of 5 sepals, white or white tinged pink or purple. Corolla of 5 petals, alternate with the sepals, white or white tinged pink or purple. Stamens 5(–8), on an androgynophore; anthers dithecal, versatile, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, stipitate, placentation parietal; ovules anatropous.

Fruit: Berries green at maturity; oblong; 20–30 cm long; 10–20 cm wide; aril white or grayish. Seeds numerous; Seed coat reticulate; with an aromatic; succulent; edible aril; embryo embedded in copious oily; soft fleshy endosperm.

Ploidy: 2n = 18*

Habitat: Wet forests.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Potentially naturalizing
O'ahu Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Birds

Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Dylan Charter
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1248 (1759)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1012 (O, H); Staples & Herbst 2005:450 (KEY); Kerr 5A BISH (O†, 1945); Degener 7103 BISH (H†, 1931)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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