Passiflora moritziana Planch.

Annales des Sciences naturelles, Botanique, sér. 5, 17: 175 (Planchon 1873). — Passiflora foetida var. moritziana (Planch.) Killip in Pulle, Flora of Suriname 3 (1): 318 (Kilip 1937).

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Venezuela • [Aragua], Colonia Tovar; without date; J. W. K. Moritz 437; holo-, P [P00605763].

VOUCHER. — French Guiana • Mana region, Hattes Beach; 15.II.1983; C. Feuillet 757; CAY [CAY218098, CAY218099, CAY218100] .

DISTRIBUTION. — Coastal dunes throughout Northern South America from Colombia to French Guiana, and several southern Caribbean Islands.

NOTE

This species is sometimes recognized as a variety of P. foetida, but differs in its velutinous vegetative vestiture and simpler (e.g., usually once-pinnatisect) involucral bracts.