Abstract
From the "Description des plantes d'Amérique" by Plumier, in 1693, to the "Species Plantarum" by Linnaeus in 1753, several dubious synonymies of Passiflora laurifolia L. were proposed, generating a persisting confusion. A revision of the process, which led to the Linnaean description of this species, shows that the type finally chosen by Cusset does not match the original description. A new lectotype for the species and a more complete description are proposed from field observations, herbarium and bibliographic data.
Highlights
Amongst Passifloraceae Jussieu (1805) ex Roussel (1806), Passiflora Linnaeus (1753) is the most important genus with about 576 species, mostly distributed in tropical America (Krosnick et al 2013)
Plumier’s description of P. laurifolia was well illustrated by the drawing presented at Figure 1
A comparison of the successive descriptions of P. laurifolia shows that the original one, provided by Plumier (1693) is the most complete and comprehensive and constitutes the common reference linking all subsequent descriptions of the species
Summary
Amongst Passifloraceae Jussieu (1805) ex Roussel (1806), Passiflora Linnaeus (1753) is the most important genus with about 576 species, mostly distributed in tropical America (Krosnick et al 2013). It includes lianas with tendrils, trees and shrubs, with alternate leaves, axillary stipules, extra-floral nectaries on the petiole and/or the surface of the leaves or even bracts and flowers with crowns of filaments and an androgynophore (Ulmer and MacDougal 2004).
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