Sparkling passionflower (Passiflora vesicaria)

Sparkling passionflower (Passiflora vesicaria) is a species of plant in the Passifloraceae, a creeping or climbing herb, the fruit is covered in enlarged flower petals, grows up to 5 meters long, the stem is cylindrical, green or reddish in color and has white hairs.

P. vesicaria has single leaves with 5-6 cm stems and long hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped, 6-7 cm wide, 9 cm long, three sharp corners, heart-shaped leaf base, perhaps flat edges or not deeply toothed.

Flowers are bright white, often with a purple center and club-shaped pistils. The fruit is covered in pad leaves, round or oval in shape, green in color and turns yellow or red to orange when ripe, glabrous, shiny and has many seeds.

This species grows with other herbs and shrubs in gardens, moors, dry rice fields, beach sand, roadsides, forest edges and parts of the forest that are open and receive hot sunlight.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Subfamily: Passifloroideae
Tribe: Passifloreae
Genus: Passiflora L. in Sp. Pl.: 955 (1753)
Subgenus: Passiflora
Section: Dysosmia
Species: Passiflora vesicaria L. in Amoen. Acad. 5: 382 (1760)
Variety: Passiflora vesicaria var. galapagensis (Killip) Vanderpl., Passiflora vesicaria var. vesicaria

PUBLICATIONS

Chen, W.C. & al. (2022). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.538.1.7. epublication.

Vanderplank, J. (2013). A revision of Passiflora section Dysosmia. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 30: 318-390.

VERNACULAR NAME

Bengali: ঝুমকা লতা Jhumka lota
Chinese (simplified): 龙珠果
Chinese (traditional): 毛西番蓮
English: Sparkling passionflower, Orangefruit passionflower, Stinking passionflower
French: Passiflore fétide
Hindi: झुमका लता Jhumka lata
Hong Kong: 毛西番蓮
Indonesian: Rambusa gundul
Java: Senthiet gundul
Kannada: Kukkiballi
Macao: 毛西番蓮
Maharashtra: वेल घाणी
Malayalam: Chirranchantiya, Poochapalam
Manipuri: Lam Radhika nachom
Marathi: Vel-ghani
Mizo: Ram-sapthei, Sapthei-suak
Odia: Krishna Kamal
Russian: Страстоцвет вонючий
Spanish: Maracuyá de monte
Taiwan: 毛西番蓮
Tamil: சிறுப்புனைக்கலி - சிறு புனை-க்-களி - முப்பரிசவல்லி Siruppunaikkali, Chiru punai-k-kali, Mupparisavalli
Telugu: Tellajumiki

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