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Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-06
Page range: 291–296
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Passiflora intricata, an apetalous new species from the Dominican Republic in Supersection Auriculatae (Passifloraceae)

Harris-Stowe State University, 3026 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63103 U.S.A. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63110 U.S.A.
Long Beach City College, 1305 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, California 90011 U.S.A.
Tennessee Tech University, 1100 North Dixie Avenue, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505 U.S.A.
moth-pollination phalaenophily Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Passiflora L. endemic to the Dominican Republic, P. intricata, is described and illustrated from herbarium material and living plants. The flower is unusual in Passiflora by its vestigial androgynophore and tangled thread-like corona. It is placed in subgenus Decaloba supersection Auriculatae s.str. on the basis of its plicate operculum, laminar and petiolar nectaries, grooved seeds, very reduced petals (absent in this new species) and apically attenuate coronal filaments.