Passiflora subg. Astrophea

Passiflora subg. Astrophea is a group of Passiflora species that are lianas, shrubs and trees found in South America.^[1]

Passiflora subg. Astrophea
Passiflora macrophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Passifloraceae
Genus:	Passiflora
Subgenus:	Passiflora subg. Astrophea (DC.) Mast. (1871)
Type species
Passiflora glauca Dryand.
Species
See text
Synonyms
Astrophea Lam. ex M.Roem.

Taxonomy

It was first published as Passiflora sect. Astrophea DC. by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1822.^[2][3] The lectotype is Passiflora glauca.^[2] It was elevated to the subgenus Passiflora subg. Astrophea (DC.) Mast. published by Maxwell T. Masters in 1871.^[4][5]

Species

Supersection	Section	Series	Image	Scientific name	Distribution
Astrophea	Astrophea			Passiflora araguensis	Venezuela (Aragua, Distrito Federal, and Miranda)
				Passiflora arborea	Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, Tolima, Valle del Cauca), Ecuador (Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Cajamarca)
				Passiflora callistemma	Colombia (Bolívar)
				Passiflora caucaense	Colombia (Cauca department)
				Passiflora emarginata	Colombia (Cauca, Chocó, Nariño, Tolima, Valle del Cauca)
				Passiflora engleriana	Colombia (Antioquia and Cundinamarca)
				Passiflora frutescens	Peru (Huánuco)
				Passiflora lindeniana	Colombia (Norte de Santander), Venezuela (Aragua, Falcón, and Mérida)
				Passiflora macrophylla	Colombia (Antioquia and Chocó), Ecuador (Bolívar, Cañar, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Loja, Los Ríos, Manabí, Napo, Pichincha, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas), Panama (Darién)
				Passiflora ocanensis	Colombia (Norte de Santander)
				Passiflora ovata	Colombia (Magdalena), French Guiana (Cayenne), Guyana, Venezuela (Bolívar)
				Passiflora pubera	Colombia (Antioquia, Huila, Magdalena, Santander, Tolima, and Valle del Cauca)
				Passiflora putumayensis	Colombia (Caquetá), Ecuador (Napo and Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Amazonas and Pasco)
				Passiflora schultzei	Colombia (Cundinamarca)
				Passiflora sphaerocarpa	Colombia (Cundinamarca, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle de Cauca)
				Passiflora tica	Colombia (Antioquia and Chocó), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, San José), Panama (Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, San Blas)
	Capreolata			Passiflora cauliflora	Colombia (Amazonas and Vichada), Ecuador (Napo), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín, Ucayali), Venezuela (Amazonas)
				Passiflora ceratocarpa	Brazil (Maranhão and Pará)
				Passiflora cerradensis	Brazil (Mato Grosso)
				Passiflora faroana	Brazil (Amazonas, Maranhão, and Pará)
				Passiflora haughtii	Colombia (Santander)
				Passiflora hexagonocarpa	Brazil (Rondônia and Amazonas)
				Passiflora jussieui	French Guiana
				Passiflora maguirei	Guyana (Mazaruni-Potaro), Venezuela (Amazonas)
				Passiflora mariquitensis	Colombia (Tolima)
				Passiflora mutisii	Colombia
				Passiflora nuriensis	Venezuela (Bolívar)
				Passiflora pittieri	Belize (Toledo), Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Colombia (Antioquia, Chocó, Tolima), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Puntarenas), Guatemala (Izabal), Nicaragua (Atlántico Sur and Río San Juan), Panama (Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, San Blas, Veraguas)
				Passiflora quelchii	Guyana (Rupununi) and Suriname (Sipaliwini)
				Passiflora tina	Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Pichincha)
	Leptopoda			Passiflora leptopoda	Brazil (Amazonas and Roraima), Guyana (Runpununi), Suriname (Sipaliwini)
				Passiflora plumosa	French Guiana (Sommet Tabulaire)
Pseudoastrophea	Pseudoastrophea			Passiflora alliacea	Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
				Passiflora candida	Brazil (Amazonas and Pará), French Guiana (Cayenne), Guyana (Essequibo)
				Passiflora cardonae	Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas)
				Passiflora chlorina	Brazil (Mina Gerais)
				Passiflora cirrhipes	Peru (San Martín)
				Passiflora costata	Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia), Guyana (Essequibo and Mazaruni-Potaro), Peru (Amazonas and Loreto); Suriname (Brokopondo, Coronie, Sipaliwini districts), Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar)
				Passiflora deficiens	Guyana (Mazaruni-Potaro)
				Passiflora elliptica	Brazil (Bahia and Rio de Janeiro)
				Passiflora grandis	Colombia (Norte de Santander)
				Passiflora haematostigma	Brazil (Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo)
				Passiflora kawensis	French Guiana (Cayenne)
				Passiflora mansoi	Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, and Rio Grande do Sul)
				Passiflora pentagona	Brazil (Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro)
				Passiflora phaeocaula	Colombia (Guainía), Brazil (Amazonas)
				Passiflora rhamnifolia	Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro)
				Passiflora sclerophylla	Guyana, Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar)
				Passiflora skiantha	Ecuador (Orellana) and Peru (Loreto)
				Passiflora tessmannii	Ecuador (Sucumbíos), Peru (Loreto and San Martín)
				Passiflora trochlearis	Ecuador (Pichincha)
				Passiflora venosa	Bolivia (Cochabamba and La Paz)
				Passiflora vescoi	French Guiana (Cacao)
	Botryastrophea	Botryastrophea		Passiflora aurantiflorescentis	Venezuela
				Passiflora holtii	Brazil (Amazonas and Goiás), Colombia (Guainía and Vaupés), Peru (Lorento), Venezuela (Amazonas)
				Passiflora pyrrhantha	Colombia (Guaviare), Ecuador (Morona-Santiago, Napo, Pastaza, Sucumbíos, Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto and San Martín), Venezuela (Amazonas, Mérida and Táchira)
				Passiflora rusbyi	Bolivia (Pando), Brazil (Acre and Amazonas), Ecuador (Napo)
				Passiflora securiclata	Brazil (Acre and Roraima), Colombia (Caquetá, Meta, and Vichada), Guyana (Essequibo), Venezuela (Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Apure, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Zulia)
				Passiflora spicata	Brazil (Amazonas)
				Passiflora spinosa	Bolivia (Beni and Pando), Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Paraíba, Roraima); Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Caquetá, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Santander), Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe, Napo, Orellana, Morona-Santiago), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín, Ucayali), Venezuela (Amazonas)
		Botryastrophea		Passiflora amoena	French Guiana and Guyana
				Passiflora ascidia	Venezuela (Bolívar) and Guyana (Potaro-Siparuni)
				Passiflora balbis	Brazil (Roraima and Amazonas), Guyana (Potaro-Siparuni and Essequibo), Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas)
				Passiflora fuchsiflora	Surinam, French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil (Amapá), Venezuela (Bolívar)
				Passiflora longiracemosa	Brazil (Pará), Guyana (Takutu and Essequibo)
				Passiflora saulensis	French Guiana (Saül commune)