Passiflora foetida L .

Species Plantarum 2: 959 (Linnaeus 1753). — Granadilla foetida (L.) Gaertn ., De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 289 (Gaertner 1788).— Tripsilina foetida (L.) Raf., Flora Telluriana 4 (7): 103 (Rafinesque 1836) .— Dysosmia foetida (L.) M.Roem., Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis Synopses Monographicae 2: 149 (Roemer 1846) .

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Country unknown • Without location; without date; Anonymous s.n.; lecto-, LINN [LINN1070.24], designated by Killip (1938) .

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Savane Brigandin; 1.VI.2015; R. Girault & J. Sutra 867; CAY[CAY213759 ].

DISTRIBUTION. — Throughout the Neotropics and introduced pantropically.

NOTE

Passiflora foetida (s.l.) is a widely distributed and highly variable species complex in section Dysosmia that can be found in disturbed areas throughout French Guiana. Here we also recognize two additional species of sect. Dysosmia, P. hispida and P. moritziana, that are sometimes considered varieties of P. foetida .