Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-13
Page range: 13–23
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Passiflora kumandayi (Passifloraceae), a new species from the Colombian Andes in a new section within subgenus Decaloba

Herbario Universidad de Caldas, Edificio Bicentenario, Manizales, A.A. 275, Caldas, Colombia
Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Harris-Stowe State University, 3026 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63103, U.S.A.
Herbario Universidad de Caldas, Edificio Bicentenario, Manizales, A.A. 275, Caldas, Colombia Research Associate, Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore, Chicago, IL 60605, U.S.A.
Passiflora section Apodae subgenus Decaloba Colombia Molecular Site Weight Calibration Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of passion flower from the Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes is here described; Passiflora kumandayi M.A. Buitrago A. & Coca (subgenus Decaloba, supersection Auriculata). This species, along with five other closely related Andean species, comprise a monophyletic group characterized by paired branched inflorescences and small flowers with short or absent androgynophores. A provisional key to the species in the newly described section Apodae is presented. Passiflora kumandayi is here illustrated and its affinities with related species are discussed based on morphology and phylogenetic binning analysis using molecular site weight calibration.