Taxon: Passiflora tripartita (Juss.) Poir. var. mollissima (Kunth) Holm-Niels. & P. Jørg.

• the 18 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI(as Passiflora mollissima)*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See other conspecific taxa:

• Passiflora tripartita (no accessions)
• Passiflora tripartita var. tripartita (no accessions)

Common names:

• banana passionflower   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• banana passionfruit   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• banana poka   (Source: State Noxweed Seed [as P. mollissima]) – English
  
• bananadilla   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as P. mollissima]) – English
  
• piesangdilla   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as P. mollissima]) – Afrikaans
  
• tacso   (Source: Dict Rehm [as P. mollissima]) – French
  
• Bananen-Passionsblume   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Curuba   (Source: Dict Rehm [as P. mollissima]) – German
  
• tacso   (Source: Dict Rehm [as P. mollissima]) – Spanish
  
• tumbo   (Source: Dict Rehm [as P. mollissima]) – Spanish
  
• curuba de Castilla   (Source: Novon 11:8. 2001) – Spanish (Colombia)
  
• tacso de Castilla   (Source: Novon 11:8. 2001) – Spanish (Ecuador)
  
• curuba   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide CultTropS, as P. mollissima)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide CultTropS, as P. mollissima)
  
• Weed   (fide Econ Bot 50:25, as P. mollissima; J. M. MacDougall, pers. comm.; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001, as P. mollissima)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Limpopo, Western Cape
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland [s.e.], Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

• widely cultivated

References:

• Austin, D. F. 1996. Book Review: CRC handbook of alternative cash crops. Econ. Bot. 50:25.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. [accepts].
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267. [= P. mollisima].
• Coppens d'Eeckenenbrugge, G. et al. 2001. Passiflora tarminiana, a new cultivated species of Passiflora subgenus Tacsonia (Passifloraceae). Novon 11:8.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. [= P. mollisima (Kunth) L. H. Bailey].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= P. mollisima].
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• 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.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Passiflora mollissima (Kunth) L. H. Bailey
  (previously associated with 21 accessions)
• (≡) Tacsonia mollissima Kunth (basionym)
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)

Check other web resources for Passiflora tripartita (Juss.) Poir. var. mollissima (Kunth) Holm-Niels. & P. Jørg.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Passiflora tripartita var. mollissima cultivars

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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