Passiflora foetida Linn.

Description:

Bukit Tagar, Hulu Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Passiflora foetida Linn. Passifloraceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Timun padang, Pokok pang bulu, Buah Leletup, Buah ulat bulu, Seletupan, Anggur hutan, Rambusa, Jembut landa, Permot], Wild water lemon, Love-in-mist, Running pop, Stinking granadilla, Stinking passionflower. Native of the neotropics; elsewhere naturalized. Habitat - waste places in the lowlands. Slender hairy vine, stem herbaceous, hairy and creeping assisted by tendrils. Leaves thin, hairy and shining, with 3 blunt or pointed lobes, heart-shaped, varying from 2.5 - 10 cm long and 2 - 10 cm wide; leaf-stalk 1.2 - 5 cm long, hairy. Flower solitary from leaf-axils with stalk about 4 cm long; each flower has 3 pale-green, moss-like involucre close under the calyx, base of calyx ring-shaped; sepals white, tinged green on the back,; petals white; corona of 2 rows of purple filaments with white tips spreading out flat, as long as the petals. Fruit globular, orange, about 2 cm, surrounded by the involucre. Fruit after removing the involucre. Synonym(s):Passiflora foetida var. arizonica KillipPassiflora foetida var. hastata (Bertol.) Mast.Passiflora foetida var. hibiscifolia (Lam.) KillipPassiflora foetida var. hispida (DC. ex Planch. & Triana) Killip ex GleasonPassiflora hastata Bertol.Passiflora hibiscifolia Lam.Passiflora hispida DC. ex Triana & Planch.and many more; see The Plant List www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2559676Ref and suggested reading:www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2559676www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?26968