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Passifloraceae

Family of flowering plants

Family of flowering plants

|Malesherbioideae |Pibirioideae |Passifloroideae |Turneroideae |Malesherbiaceae D.Don, nom. cons. |Modeccaceae Horan. |Paropsiaceae Dumort. |Turneraceae Kunth ex DC., nom. cons. |}}

The Passifloraceae are a family of flowering plants, containing about 750 species classified in around 27 genera.

They include trees, shrubs, lianas, and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions. The family takes its name from the passion flower genus (Passiflora) which includes the edible passion fruit (Passiflora edulis), as well as garden plants such as maypop and running pop.

Passiflora vines and Dryas iulia (among other heliconian butterflies) have demonstrated evidence of coevolution, in which the plants attempted to stop their destruction from larval feeding by the butterflies, while the butterflies tried to gain better survival for their eggs.

The former Cronquist system of classification placed this family in the order Violales, but under more modern classifications systems such as that proposed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, this is absorbed into the Malpighiales and the family has been expanded to include the former Malesherbiaceae and Turneraceae.

Genera

Subfamily Malesherbioideae

  • Malesherbia Ruiz & Pav.

Subfamily Pibirioideae

  • Pibiria Maas

Subfamily Passifloroideae

;Tribe Paropsieae

  • Androsiphonia Stapf
  • Barteria Hook.f. (includes synonym Smeathmannia Sol. ex R.Br.)
  • Paropsia Noronha ex Thouars
  • Paropsiopsis Engl.
  • Viridivia J.H.Hemsl. & Verdc.

;Tribe Jongkindieae Breteler & F.T.Bakker

  • Jongkindia Breteler & F.T.Bakker

;Tribe Passifloreae

  • Adenia Forssk.
  • Ancistrothyrsus Harms
  • Basananthe Peyr.
  • Crossostemma Planch. ex Benth.
  • Deidamia Noronha ex Thouars
  • Dilkea Mast.
  • Efulensia C.H.Wright
  • Mitostemma Mast.
  • Passiflora L.
  • Schlechterina Harms

Subfamily Turneroideae

  • Adenoa Arbo
  • Afroqueta Thulin & Razafim
  • Arboa Thulin & Razafim
  • Erblichia Seem.
  • Hyalocalyx Rolfe
  • Loewia Urb.
  • Mathurina Balf.f.
  • Oxossia L. Rocha
  • Piriqueta Aubl.
  • Stapfiella Gilg
  • Streptopetalum Hochst.
  • Tricliceras Thonn. ex DC.
  • Turnera L.

Excluded genera

  • Abatia Ruiz & Pav. → Salicaceae
  • Aphaerema Miers → Salicaceae

Phylogeny

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References

References

  1. (2003-01-17). "Family: ''Passifloraceae'' Juss. ex Roussel, nom. cons.". United States Department of Agriculture.
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
  3. (1975). "Coevolution of plants and herbivores". Evolution.
  4. "''Smeathmannia'' R.Br. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science".
  5. Frans J. Breteler, Floris C. Breman, Di Lei, Freek T. Bakker (2022) Wrong flowers? The evolutionary puzzle of ''Jongkindia'' (Passifloraceae s.l.), a new monotypic genus and tribe from Liberia, West Africa. ''Webbia. Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography'' 77(2):229-246. doi: 10.36253/jopt-13470
  6. "GRIN Genera of ''Passifloraceae''". United States Department of Agriculture.
  7. "GRIN genera sometimes placed in ''Passifloraceae''". United States Department of Agriculture.
  8. (2019-03-26). "'Unknown yellow':''Pibiria'', a new genus of Passifloraceae with a mixture of features found in Passifloroideae and Turneroideae". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
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