Passiflora macrophylla Spruce ex Masters (1883: 31)

Mezzonato-Pires, Ana Carolina, Mendonça, Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira, Milward-De-Azevedo, Michaele Alvim & Gonçalves-Esteves, Vania, 2017, The systematic value of pollen morphology of Passiflora subgenus Astrophea (Passifloraceae), Phytotaxa 298 (1), pp. 1-19 : 3

Passiflora macrophylla Spruce ex Masters (1883: 31) ( Fig. 1A–D )

Pollen grains large, prolate spheroidal ( Table 1), polar area large ( Table 2), amb subcircular; colpi short; endoaperture lalongate, pontoperculum ( Table 3) does not reduce the width of the apocolpium; sexine intectate, granulate-baculate-spinose, richly ornamented with granula, conspicuous bacula (ca. 4.5 × 3.0μm) and spines (ca. 3.0 × 4.5 μm) ( Fig. 1D ); sexine thicker than nexine ( Table 4).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Photomicrographs and electron photomicrographs of pollen grains of the species of Passiflora subg. Astrophea. A–D. P. macrophylla—polar view: A. general aspect; equatorial view: B. apertures, C. general aspect, D. ornamentation detail. Arrows indicate bacula and pila. E–G.P.jussieui—polar view:E. general aspect; equatorial view: F.apertures.G. ornamentation detail. H–K. P. cardonae— polar view: H. general aspect; equatorial view: I. endoaperture, J. general aspect. K. ornamentation detail. L. P. maguirei—polar view: L. general aspect. Scale bar: 10 μm (A–C, E–F, H–J, L); 2 μm (D, G, K).