Passiflora lancifolia Desv. ex Ham.

Slender, climbing, perennial vine 3 m long or more, densely pubescent with unicellular curved trichomes throughout (except ovary), 0.5–1.4 mm long, 0.02–0.06 mm wide, also sparsely, antrorsely appressed-puberulent with unicellular, curved trichomes on stems, leaves and stipules, 0.03–0.05 mm long, 0.02 mm wide. Flowering stems 0.7–2.2 mm in diameter, subterete to terete, with the base somewhat cork-covered. Stipules 4.1–8.5 mm long, 0.3–0.9 mm wide; petioles 0.7–1.9 cm long, narrowly ovate, acute to attenuate, longitudinally striate-nerved, eglandular (rare) or commonly bearing in the distal third (0.69–0.97 of the distance from the base toward the apex of the petiole) (1-)2, round or elliptic, opposite to alternate, long-stipitate, cupulate nectaries, 0.1–0.5 mm wide, 0.4–1.2 mm high. Laminas 3.5–8.5 cm long, 1.5–5.2 cm wide, unlobed to shallowly 3-lobed 0.05–0.72 of the distance to the leaf base, when present, lateral lobes 1.1–4.0 cm long, 0.5–3.0 cm wide, elliptic, acute to rounded, central lobes 3.5–8.5 cm long, 1.0–3.5 cm wide, ovate to elliptic, acute to attenuate, angle between the lateral lobes 53–115°, ratio of lateral to central lobe length 0.29–0.56, margins entire, primary veins 1(rare) or 3, diverging and branching at base, laminar nectaries absent; tendril 0.3–0.6 mm wide, present at flowering node. Flowers borne in leaf axils. Pedicels 24.0–55.0 mm long, 0.3–0.8 mm wide; bract(s) absent or with one, narrowly ovate, acute bract, 0.9–1.8 mm long, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, the bract 20.6–34.8 mm from base of pedicel; spur(s) absent. Tubular flowers 7.1–12.8 mm in diameter with stipe 2.9–7.4 mm long, 0.5–1.0 mm wide; hypanthium 7.1–12.8 mm in diameter; sepals 20.1–31.8 mm long, 3.4–6.9 mm wide, narrowly ovate, acute, abaxially and adaxially reddish purple (5RP 4/6–4/8) dried; coronal filaments in 1 (rare) or 2 series, the outer 26–30, basally connate 1.1–3.8 mm, the free portions 5.8–10.3 mm long, 0.3–0.8 mm wide, linear to narrowly ovate, erect, reddish purple, lighter distally, ratio of coronal (fused and free portions) to sepal length 0.28–0.49, the inner not well-developed with 2–4 filaments or well-developed (rare) with 30–31 filaments, free or basally connate (rare) 0.8–0.2 mm, the free portions 1.1–2.9 mm long, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, linear, sometime capitellate, erect, appearing reddish purple when dried, ratio of inner coronal row to outer coronal row length (fused and free portions) 0.11–0.41; operculum 1.7–2.9 mm long, plicate, appearing light reddish purple dried, the margin with narrow minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.09–0.13 mm high, 1.1–3.5 mm wide, sulcate; limen slightly recurved to erect, occasionally slightly inclined toward operculum, 0.2–1.1 mm high, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, appearing light reddish purple (5RP6/6) dried, limen floor 2.1–6.1 mm in diameter, appearing light reddish purple dried; androgynophore 17.8–22.3 mm long, 0.6–1.3 mm wide, reddish purple dried; free portions of the staminal filaments 3.3–8.0 mm long, 0.3–0.7 mm wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 1.8–4.0 mm long, 0.5–2.0 mm wide; styles 4.3–7.0 mm long including stigmas, 0.1–0.4 mm wide, greenish yellow; stigmas 0.4–1.1 mm in diameter; ovary 2.6–6.7 mm long, 1.2–3.8 mm wide, elliptic, greenish yellow. Berry 12.8–13.9 mm long, 11.0–14.4 mm in diameter, ovoid to obovoid, very dark purple. Seeds ca. (6-)14–23, 3.0–3.2 mm long, 1.8–1.9 mm wide, 1.3 mm thick, obovate in outline, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with ca. 15–17 foveae.

Endemic to Jamaica, in the parishes of St. Andrew, St. Thomas, and Portland. Tropical lower montane mist forests on steep wooded hillsides and in thickets; growing on shrubs and trees; ca. 850–1220 m.