Passifloraceae FAMILY
Passiflora bryonioides
Passiflora bryonioides
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Passiflora bryonioides is a clump-forming, herbaceous perennial plant producing annual, climbing stems 50 - 200cm long from a thickened woody rotstock. The stems attach themselves to the surrounding vegetation by means of tendrils[ 1674 Title Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba Section Pseudodysosmia (Passifloraceae) Publication Systematic Botany Monographs, Vol 41 pp 1 - 146, 1994 Author MacDougal J.M. Website http://www.jstor.org/stable/25027834 Publisher American Society of Plant Taxonomists Year 1994 ISBN Description ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.
Habitat & Origin
Origintemperate; tropical
Native RangeSouthwestern N. America - southern Arizona to southern Mexico (Oaxaca)
HabitatSemi-arid thorn scrub, grassy chaparral-type vegetation (Ilano espinoso), canyons in arid areas, or sometimes in open dry grassy low oak or pine forest; at elevations from 1,100 - 2,150 metres[ 1674 Title Revision of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba Section Pseudodysosmia (Passifloraceae) Publication Systematic Botany Monographs, Vol 41 pp 1 - 146, 1994 Author MacDougal J.M. Website http://www.jstor.org/stable/25027834 Publisher American Society of Plant Taxonomists Year 1994 ISBN Description ].