Taxon: Passiflora ligularis Juss.

• the 56 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• sweet granadilla   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• granadille   (Source: Pl GR Newsl 96:32.) – French
  
• grenadille douce   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• süße Grenadille   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• maracujá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cranix   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• granada-china   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• granadilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sötgrenadill   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base   (fide Cornucopia 147.)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia 147.)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

References:

• Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 96:32.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1988. Flora of Ecuador. 31:110–111.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Pittier, H. F. et al. 1945–1947. Catálogo de la flora venezolana.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Ulmer, T. & J. M. MacDougal. 2004. Passiflora: passionflowers of the world. 297–298.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Passiflora ligularis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Passiflora ligularis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Passiflora ligularis.

Check other web resources for Passiflora ligularis Juss.:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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