Passifloreae
An order of trees, shrubs, or herbs, with watery juice, of variable habit, erect, climbing or twining, natives of tropical and sub-tropical regions, but most numerous in South America. Flowers solitary, racemose, or cymose-paniculate, usually showy, hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually regular; calyx tube short or elongated, coriaceous or herbaceous, persistent, in two cases absent; lobes three to many, coriaceous, valvate or imbricated; petals absent, or as many as the calyx lobes, inserted at the throat, tube, or base of the calyx, free, or connate in a campanulate corolla, induplicately valvate or imbricated; corona at the throat or base of the calyx simple or duplex, tubular, or cut into radiating or erect filaments, or rarely absent; disk urceolate or annular, rarely absent; stamens three to five, or rarely many, in a few cases many-seriate, perigynous, or inserted with the petals at the calyx throat, the filaments subulate or filiform. Fruit a many-seeded, dehiscent or indehiscent, berry or capsule. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, petiolate, simple, lobed, palmately three to seven-foliolate, very rarely pinnate or decompound, sometimes glandular; stipules none or twin, deciduous or persistent; tendrils circinate or spirally twisted. Several species of Passiflora are of economic value, some of them having edible fruits. The order comprises nineteen genera and about 250 species. Examples; Carica, Gynopleura, Passiflora, and Tacsonia.