Passiflora tina Boender & Ulmer (2001: 6)

Kuethe, J. R., Cornejo, Xavier, Garzón-Suárez, Henry X., Jiménez, Marco M., Wettges, Martin, Magdalena, Carlos, Mejía-Pazos, Nicanor, Flores, Juan Carlos Espín & Decoux, Jose, 2025, Passionflower trees of Ecuador: revising the presence of Passiflora subg. Astrophea (Passifloraceae) and including resolution to the P. putumayensis and P. macrophylla taxonomic complexes, Phytotaxa 697 (2), pp. 147-165 : 162

9. Passiflora tina Boender & Ulmer (2001: 6) ( Figure 7c )

Type:— ECUADOR. Pichincha: Tinalandia, SE of Sto. Domingo de los Colorados on road to Alluriquin , 700 m, 6 May 1996 (fl.), R. Boender 744 (holotype: QCA 72113 !; isotype: MO 1795112 ) .

Notes:—The endemic Passiflora tina is remarkable for its red to orange frilly corona and massive inflorescence. Flowers form in dense clusters on the young branches, with 3–6 flowers per foliar node. Occasionally it also produces flowers in dense fascicles on the older stems. It is one of just two species found in Ecuador with 4 or more corona series and is foremost unique among this group for producing and unusual large amount of nectar and omitting a strong sweet odour. This arborescent species grows within the seasonal dry forest of north-west Ecuador, where it is found in the provinces of Esmeraldas, far western Pichincha and northern Manabí. The biggest populations were seen by the authorial team in Mache-Chindul National Park, where it grows in thin shrubby forests at elevations not exceeding 500 m above sea level.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Overview of the Ecuadorean Astrophea. All taken within Ecuador.A) P. trochlearis (by Juan C. Espín F.); B) P. skiantha (by Dawson White); C) P. tina (by Xavier Cornejo); D) P. tessmannii (by Henry Garzón-Suarez); E) P. pyrrhantha (by Xavier Cornejo); F) P. spinosa (by Sebastián Vizcarra).