Passiflora amethystina Macaè de Cima | The Italian Collection of Maurizio Vecchia

Systematics (J. Macdougal et al., 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OR ORIGIN:

 Eastern Brazil from Minas Gerais to São Paulo. Form of the locality Macaè de Cima.

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 5 °C

IDEAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: 10 °C

SYNONYMS:

P. bangii Mast., P. cornuta Mast., P. laminensis Barb. Rodr., P. lilacina Roemer, P. onichyna Lindley, P. violacea Vell

ETYMOLOGY:

From the color violet-amethyst of the flowers. 

NOTES:

Chromosomes: n=9, 2n=18