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Passiflora foetida
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Yaekela, Tshopo District, DRCongo. © Botanic Garden Meise
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Yaekela, Tshopo District, DRCongo. © Botanic Garden Meise
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Yaekela, Tshopo District, DRCongo. © Botanic Garden Meise
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| Status: | Introduced |
| Description: |
Annual or biennial climber up to 4 m high with an unpleasant smell; most parts densely covered with spreading hairs and capitate glands; tendrils axillary, up to 10 cm long. Leaves 3-5-lobed, up to 11 × 11 cm, cordate at the base; margin entire or irregularly toothed and ciliate; petiole up to 6 cm long; stipules divided into filiform gland-tipped lobes. Flowers solitary, axillary, white, pink, purple or lilac, 2-5 cm in diameter, peduncles up to 6 cm long.Bracts subtending the flowers, 2-4-pinnatifid with filiform gland-tipped segments. Fruit subglobose, 1.5-3 cm in diameter, yellow to red, enveloped in the persistent bracts. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | foetida: unpleasantly smelling; foetid. |
| Habitat: | On riverbanks, roadsides and sometimes as a weed of cultivation. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Native to tropical America and naturalized in parts of tropical and southern Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | N,Z,M |
| Growth form(s): | Climber. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 13 October 2016 |
| Literature: |
Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Passifloraceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 410 - 411. (Includes a picture). Fernandes, R. & A. (1980). 79. Passiforaceae Flora de Moçambique Junta de Investigaçoes de Ultramar, Centro de Botanica Pages 38 - 40. (Includes a picture). |
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Flora of Burundi: Passiflora foetidaFlora of the DRC: Passiflora foetida
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Passiflora foetidaAfrican Plant Database: Passiflora foetida
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Passiflora foetida
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Passiflora foetida
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Passiflora foetida
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iNaturalist: Passiflora foetida
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Passiflora foetida
JSTOR Plant Science: Passiflora foetida
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Passiflora foetida
Plants of the World Online: Passiflora foetida
Tropicos: Passiflora foetida
Wikipedia: Passiflora foetida
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