? Passiflora trinervia
Estado de conservación
IUCN 3.1
Clasificación científica
Reino:	Plantae
División:	Magnoliophyta
Clase:	Magnoliopsida
Orden:	Violales
Familia:	Passifloraceae
Género:	Passiflora
Subgénero:	Decaloba (DC.) Mast.
Especie:	P. trinervia
Nombre binomial
Passiflora trinervia (Juss.) Poir.

Subgénero Decaloba (Psilanthus sensu Killip, 1938)

Descripción

Tallo macizo, angulado, grisáceo tomentoso; estípulas setaceas, up to 1 cm long; petioles up to 1.5 cm long, glandless; leaves oblong, 6 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, 3-lobed at apex (middle lobe deltoid, acute, much the largest, the lateral lobes obtuse or acutish, often nearly obsolete), rounded or subcordate at base, 3- nerved, reticulate-veined, glabrescent or pilosulous above, densely ferruginous-tomentose beneath; peduncles slender, up to 1 dm long, pendulous; bracts setaceous, 1 cm long, borne slightly below middle of peduncle; calyx cylindric, up to 12 cm × 1 cm (at throat), dilated just above base, abruptly narrowed to peduncle, rose-colored without, yellow-green proximally, cream-colored distally within, glabrous; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, rose-colored, marginally banded with white within; petals linearoblong, 1.5 cm × 3 mm, deep rose; corona filamentose, the filaments 35 to 40, 2 to 3 mm long, cream-colored; operculum borne about 3 cm above base of tube, reduced to about 12 weak, pink threads 4 mm long; limen none; anthers purplish black, green at center; ovary narrowly ovoid, densely ferruginous-hirsute; fruit ovoid, 3.5 to 4 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, densely ferruginoushirsute; seeds obovate or obcordate, 4 to 6 mm × 2.5 a 3 mm , transversely sulcate with 8 or 9 rugulose ridges.

Distribución

Especie distribuida en la cordillera central de Colombia en los departamentos de Caldas, Quindío, Tolima y Valle del Cauca, entre los 2.500 y 3.500 msnm; endémica de Colombia

Referencias

• Killip, E.P. 1938. The American species of Passifloraceae. Publications of the Field Museum Natural History, Chicago. Botany Series 19 (1, 2): 1-163
• Ocampo, J.A., Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge, G., Restrepo, M., Jarvis, A., Salazar, M., Caetano, C.M. 2007. Diversity of Colombian Passifloraceae: biogeography and an updated list for conservation. Biota Colombiana 8(1): 1-45.
• Ulmer, Torsten and John M. MacDougal. 2004Passiflora: passion flowers of the world. Timber Press Portland, Oregon. 430pp.