FOLIA TAXONÓMICA 14. NOTES ON PASSIFLORA SUPERSECTION COCCINEA (PASSIFLORACEAE) FROM THE GUIANA SHIELD

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by  Christian Feuillet

ON
TAXONOMICA NOTES SUPERSECTION COCCINEA
PASSIFLORA
FOLIA
14.
FROM THE GUIANA
SHIELD
(PASSIFLORACEAE)
John Vanderplank
Christian Feuillet
MRC-
artment of 66 National Collection ofPassiflora
Botany,
1
Seymour
Lampley
Road, Kingston
Smithsonian
Institution
Box 37012 evedon, North Somerset BS2 6XS,
U.K.
P.O.
1
USA
DC
johnvanderplank@yahoo. uk
20013-701
co.
ington,
2,
ABSTRACT
supersect.CocdneafromtheGuianaShie
xpandeddistribmionsaregivenfor hree species of Passijlora
we
March had CAY.
During French Guiana 2009, the opportunity study the collections
in in to at
a field trip
Some specimens species belonging in subg. Passijlora supersect. Coccinea Feuillet
interesting of Passijlora
&
and
MacDougal worth mentioning they represent recently described poorly collected species
are as
J.M.
(Vanderplank 2006; Feuillet 2007, 2008). This triggered a reexamination of the specimens representing spe-
US
and herbarium with greenhouses
of supersect. Coccinea with unlobed leaves at in the associated the
cies
new
The expand
(United Kingdom). data presented here the
holding the National Collection of Passijlora
known
distribution area those species.
for
compar
Texas 2007.
1. Passiflora Feuillet, Bot. Res. Inst. 1:821.
J.
much
by
compar separated from other species of supersection Coccinea leaves that are
easily its
Passijlora
is
mm
5-7
thinner and from most other species by the corona with 2 rows of red or pink filaments long.
m, 6 Jan 2003, S.A. Mori 25527 (CAY, NY); Saul, vicinity of Eaux Claires, 3°37'N, 53°12'W, ca. 300 m, 16 Feb 1993, fl., S.A.
fl., et a\.
—
known Guyana from Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo
and compar in the
Distribution phenology. Passijlora is
Kanuku and French Guiana from upper
from Potaro-Siparuni Region, near Kato, in the
Region, the
Mts.,
Eaux and from Montagne Nouragues.
Maroni basin, Saut Lavaud, from the Saul area, Claires, des It inhabits
m
below 400 near on expected be present in Surinam.
moist of elevation, rivers or slopes. to
forest It is
and November; was
compar was blooming February, March, September, fruiting in
in January,
Passijlora it
February and March.
Mag. 2006.
2. Passiflora longicuspis Vanderplank, Curtis's Bot. 23:232; pi. 563.
mm
22-26 on
characterized by the corona filaments, long, reaching the ovary top of
Passijlora longicuspis
is
the androgynophore. also one of the few with crenate leaf margins, one of the few with small bracts,
is
It
and one of the few with colored outer corona filaments.
FRENCH
Additional collection: GUIANA: Cayenne, Mont Baduel, 10 m, 2 Jun 1987, fl., M. Hofj5222 (CAY); Piste de St. Elie, Mar 2003,
—The
and type of from the British National Collection of origi-
Distribution phenology. longicuspis Passiflora
P.
new Mont
Sinnamary The from
nated French Guiana from Route de near the River. collections are
in St Elie,
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3(2)
a Texas 2:281. 2008.
Feuillet, Bot. Res. Inst.
J.
n
by with
the supersection, characterized leaf blades that are bi-serrate the serration
tecta is its
P.
vith glands, corona in 3 rows of filaments, and the 2 outer rows that are deep red with the outrr
its
mm mm
2 long and the middle row 9
long.
GUYANA.
Mar Cuyuni-Mazaruni: Ayan
198 O.Huber 9154 (US)
,2
fl.,
,
?°07'W, 30^ McDowell 3472 Essequibo
(US).
^'niwal T. I
r,,
Apr
,19 19
D
Upper
89 (CAY,
US).
SURINAM.
(CAY, US) Sipaliwini: v
?Jan 1990,
3m,3Febl
998 JLJ.S. etal 304 (MO, US)
Miller
row
band on
lens from plants having a pale the outer corona probably represent the
si
—
now known
from from
Distribution and phenology. Passiflora tecta is the State of Bolivar in Venezuela,
Guyana, and from northern Sipaliwini and perhaps Brokopondo in Surinam. was blooming in January,
It
February (photograph only), April to and September; was in fruit in February (photograph only),
July,
it
and
October.
April,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We
We
John MacDougal and reviewing manuscript. thank Sophie
are grateful Steve the
to Tillett for
work
Gonzalez, director of the herbarium in Cayenne (CAY) for providing the ideal conditions to with the
number Guiana
collections in her care. This 155 in the Smithsonian's Biological Diversity of the Shield
is
Program
publication
series.
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