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Slender, climbing, perennial vine 2–8 m long, sparsely to lightly pubescent with unicellular curved trichomes on petiole, stem, and stipule, (0.1)0.4–0.6(-0.8) mm long, 0.02 mm wide, also minutely antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout (except ovary) with unicellular, curved trichomes, 0.05–0.10 mm long, 0.02–0.03 mm wide. Flowering stems 0.6–2.1 mm in diameter, terete or subterete, with little secondary growth (to 6 mm near base with corky, secondary growth). Stipules (3.5-)5.3–12.6(-20.0) mm long, 2.50–6.4(-9.0) mm wide, ovate, slightly oblique, acute to slightly attenuate, 5–9 veins departing from the base; petioles 0.7–4.6 cm long, eglandular. Laminas 2.5–12.0 cm long, 2.2–14.5(-17.0) cm wide, chartaceous, not variegated, ratio of leaf width to central vein length 0.28–1.88, 3-lobed 0.26–0.45 of the distance to the cordate leaf base, lateral lobes 1.6–8.7 cm long, 0.8–4.4 cm wide, ovate-triangular, acute to slightly attenuate, central lobes 2.5–11.1 cm long, 1.0–5.7 cm wide, ovate-triangular, acute to slightly attenuate, angle between the lateral lobes 127–170°, ratio of lateral to central lobe length 0.64–0.97, margins entire, primary veins 3, diverging and branching at base, laminar nectaries absent; tendril 0.3–1.1 mm wide, present at flowering node, absent in inflorescence. Flowers borne in leaf axils. Pedicels 5.6–20.0 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide, (1-)2 per node; bract(s) absent; spur(s) absent (occasionally) or 5 retrorse spurs present between the bases of the sepals, 0.7–1.1 mm long. Flowers 16.9–21.5 mm in diameter with stipe 2.1–7.9 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide; hypanthium 4.0–5.9 mm in diameter; sepals 5.5–8.5 mm long, 2.3–3.9 mm wide, ovate-triangular, acute to rounded, the 2–3 outermost with a (0.5-)0.8–1.2 mm blunt subapical horn, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow, often with a flush of reddish purple (5PR 3/4–4/6) abaxially (rarely to fully dark reddish purple); coronal filaments in 2 series, the outer 24–31, 2.0–4.1 mm long, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, linear, reflexed above middle and the tips often slightly incurved, greenish yellow at base, yellow distally, ratio of outer coronal row to sepal length 0.30–0.70, the inner 18–34, 0.7–1.5 mm long, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, linear, often capitate, erect, greenish yellow, ratio of inner coronal row to outer coronal row length 0.28–0.66; operculum 1.4–2.9 mm long, plicate, greenish yellow, sometimes with a flush of reddish purple at center, whitish distally, the margin with narrow minutely fimbrillate teeth; nectary 0.06–0.88 mm high, 0.6–1.5 mm wide; limen recurved, 0.2–0.5 mm high, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, whitish, limen floor 1.6–2.1 mm in diameter, whitish; androgynophore 1.3–3.5 mm long, 0.8–1.3 mm wide; free portions of the staminal filaments 2.1–3.8 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, linear, greenish yellow; anthers 2.3–3.8 mm long, 0.5–1.7 mm wide, greenish yellow, long axis oriented perpendicular (or nearly so) to long axis of filaments at anthesis; styles 3.5–6.7 mm long including stigmas, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, greenish yellow; stigmas 0.5–0.9 mm in diameter; ovary 1.2–2.8 mm long, 0.8–2.2 mm wide, widely ellipsoid to globose, greenish yellow. Berry 8.0–14.4 mm long, (7-)9.0–15.3 mm in diameter, widely ellipsoid to globose, very dark purple with glaucous bloom. Seeds 4–10, 4.5–5.7 mm long, 3.1–3.5 mm wide, 2.0–2.7 mm thick, obovate in outline, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with with ca. 15–19 foveae.
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Porter-Utley K (2014) A revision of Passiflora L. subgenus Decaloba (DC.) Rchb. supersection Cieca (Medik.) J. M. MacDougal & Feuillet (Passifloraceae) PhytoKeys (43): 1–224
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Distribution

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El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Growing in shrubs and small trees in shady ravines and at the edges of premontane to montane broad-leaved forests on volcanic cones; 1500–2650 m.
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Kristen Porter-Utley
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Porter-Utley K (2014) A revision of Passiflora L. subgenus Decaloba (DC.) Rchb. supersection Cieca (Medik.) J. M. MacDougal & Feuillet (Passifloraceae) PhytoKeys (43): 1–224
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Kristen Porter-Utley
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