Herbarium JCB

Passiflora foetida L.

Family : PASSIFLORACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Passifloraceae
Species : Passiflora foetida
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Passiflora foetida L.
Common name : Foetid Passion Flower, Common Passion Flower
Vernacular name : Kukkeballi (Kan.)
Collection Nos : Passiflora foetida
Key identification features : A small climbing vine on hedges and shrubs with simple alternate lobed leaves and tendrils. Flowers are about 4 cm or more across, attractive and solitary. Involucre bracts are filiform-pectinate. Fruit is fleshy and globose covered with the persistant hairy bract.
Habit : Climbing Shrub
Native : Tropical South America
Comments : The flowers give the appearance of clock face.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere