| Classification |
| Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order Type: Eudicots-Rosids I
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Family Common Name: Passionflower Family
Genera: Passiflora |
Defining Features: Flower
often with fringed corona.
Defining Morphology: Floral
Features: Actinomorphic and perfect. Flowers are showy with conspicuous
petaloid 'corona' or of filaments or enclosed by a disk around the gynoecium.
Flowers are solitary or inflorescence is a cyme. Ovaries are superior with
parietal placentation. Fruit and Seed Features: Dicotyledon. Fruit is a
berry or capsule. Endosperm is present and oily. Vegetative Features: Habit
as trees, shrubs, lianas and limbing plants. Leaves are alternate simple
or compound (palmate). Petioles with extra-flora nectaries. Leaves margin
either entire or dissected; when dissected, palmatifid. Leaves stipulate
or exstipulate.
Distribution: Tropical and
warm temprate regions of both hemispheres.
Economic Use: Some species
are grown as ornamental and some as edible fruits.
Number of Genera Globally:
18
Number of Species Globally: 530
