Passiflora pulchella Kunth, Passifloraceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

English: two-lobed passion flower, wingleaf passionfruit

Habit:  vine

Description:  "Herbaceous vines. Leaves with blades 1.5-5 cm long, 4-9 cm wide, 2-lobed, venation conspicuously reticulate, glabrous, with orbicular laminar nectaries ca. 1 mm in diameter between main veins on lower surface, stipules setaceous, 3-8 mm long, deciduous.  Flowers campanulate, 3-4 cm in diameter, peduncles usually paired; hypanthium 0.2-0.4 cm long; sepals and petals bluish white, corona yellow, banded with purple, filamentous, 1-1.5 cm long.  Berries purple at maturity, globose, 1-1.5 cm in diameter"  (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 1012).

Habitat/ecology:  In Hawai‘i, "introduced as an ornamental, escaping into abandoned lots and sugar cane fields, 135 m" (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 1012).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "...open lowlands from southern Mexico to northern South America" (Wagner et al., 1999; p. 1012).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
American Samoa Manu‘a Islands	Ofu Island	introduced	Ragone, Diane/Lorence, David H. (2003) (p. 52) Passiflora cf. pulchella
American Samoa Manu‘a Islands	Ofu Island		National Tropical Botanical Garden (U.S.A. Hawaii. Kalaheo.) (2001) (voucher ID: PTBG 35359) Taxon name on voucher: Passiflora cf. pulchella Kunth
French Polynesia Tuamotu Archipelago	Makatea (Ma‘atea) Island	introduced invasive	Florence, J./Chevillotte, H./Ollier, C./Meyer, J.-Y. (2011) Voucher cited: J. Florence 9132 (PAP) Adventice
French Polynesia Tuamotu Archipelago	Makatea (Ma‘atea) Island		Bishop Museum (Honolulu) (1988) (voucher ID: BISH 558732) Taxon name on voucher: Passiflora pulchella Kunth
French Polynesia Tuamotu Archipelago	Tuamotu Island	introduced invasive	Florence, J./Chevillotte, H./Ollier, C./Meyer, J.-Y. (2011) Voucher cited: J. Florence 9132 (PAP) Adventice
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Hawai‘i (Big) Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. (1999) (p. 1012)
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. (1999) (p. 1012)

Additional information:
Additional online information about Passiflora pulchella is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Passiflora pulchella as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Passiflora pulchella may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Bishop Museum (Honolulu). 1988. Voucher specimen #BISH 558732 (Florence, J. 9132).

Florence, J./Chevillotte, H./Ollier, C./Meyer, J.-Y. 2011. Base de données botaniques Nadeaud de l'Herbier de la Polynésie Française (PAP). (online resource).

National Tropical Botanical Garden (U.S.A. Hawaii. Kalaheo.). 2001. Voucher specimen #PTBG35359(David H. Lorence 8656).

Ragone, Diane/Lorence, David H. 2003. Botanical and ethnobotanical inventories of the National Park of American Samoa. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, Hawaii and Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, Department of Botany, University of Hawaii. 91 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. 1999. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Revised edition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication. University of Hawai‘i Press/Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1919 pp. (two volumes).