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Passiflora princeps G.Lodd.

Passifloraceae · Brazil Southeast

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
18.5°C
Jul at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (sea cell) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,234mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
22–40DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to October (October to April at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Passiflora

Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, and the type genus of the family Passifloraceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Passiflora", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (920 mm of 1,221 mm) falls in October to April, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.5 °C against a yearly mean of 23.3 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to October.

Rain

1,221 mm in the median year at the habitat, 920 mm of it October to April. Wettest month December at 175 mm, driest month August at 43 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,035 mm to 1,482 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,234 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,221 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 40 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 18.5 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 15.5 °C to 19.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.3 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 18.5 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, July, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell that is mostly sea and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Passiflora princeps through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 18.5 °C; 1,221 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.10°15°20°25°30°35°°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 22–40RH 63–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 18 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 26–2928 / 27–3027 / 26–2926 / 26–2725 / 24–2524 / 23–2423 / 23–2424 / 23–2524 / 23–2525 / 23–2626 / 24–2727 / 25–28
Night °C24 / 22–2424 / 22–2424 / 22–2422 / 20–2321 / 18–2219 / 16–2019 / 16–2019 / 16–2019 / 17–2021 / 19–2122 / 20–2223 / 21–23
Rain mm156 / 131–228112 / 81–152146 / 123–180109 / 87–12472 / 62–8853 / 47–6656 / 48–6443 / 38–5677 / 68–9293 / 78–110129 / 111–156175 / 142–218
DLI38 / 37–4140 / 38–4234 / 33–3629 / 29–3124 / 23–2522 / 21–2323 / 22–2428 / 27–2929 / 28–3234 / 32–3736 / 34–3937 / 35–40
RH %68 / 66–7068 / 65–7068 / 67–6966 / 66–6765 / 65–6664 / 62–6563 / 62–6564 / 62–6665 / 64–6566 / 65–6767 / 66–6868 / 66–69

The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 44% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum 12.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 15.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.7 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 18 grid cells holding the 33 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2259:2739 (-22.975, -43.025). Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 18 distinct grid cells holding 33 of the 33 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2259:2739 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells, though its NASA POWER cell is only 44% land and none of the 11 next candidates within 2 °C of the median was mostly land); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -23.00_-43.125, lapse-corrected -37 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 44 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3588304 (Passiflora princeps G.Lodd., 37 records), 12273618 (Passiflora racemosa var. princeps (Lodd.) G.Don, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeBrazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-22.9, -43.281 · in the densest population, 35 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“liana” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 35 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 33 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 108 km away. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3588304 (Passiflora princeps G.Lodd.): Kew's file holds it as Passiflora princeps G.Lodd. (accepted); 37 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 12273618 (Passiflora racemosa var. princeps (Lodd.) G.Don): Kew's file holds it as Passiflora racemosa var. princeps (Lodd.) G.Don (synonym under Passiflora princeps G.Lodd.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 35 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Aechmea floribunda Aechmea floribunda Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabricio Carvalho da SilvaNeoregelia cruenta Neoregelia cruenta Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Bárbara VerdinhaEugenia selloi Eugenia selloi Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Bárbara VerdinhaPilosocereus arrabidae Pilosocereus arrabidae Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedVriesea neoglutinosa Vriesea neoglutinosa Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozClusia hilariana Clusia hilariana Clusiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Henrique Bitencourt

Other Passiflora 145 in the reference

Passiflora actinia Passiflora actinia Wild Bell Appleˌ Photo: CC BY, fmunozPassiflora adenopoda Passiflora adenopoda Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribePassiflora adulterina Passiflora adulterina Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribePassiflora affinis Passiflora affinis Passifloraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPassiflora alata Passiflora alata Wingstem passionflower Photo: CC BY, Mariano CosentinoPassiflora alnifolia Passiflora alnifolia Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, Connor Connolly-MoylsPassiflora ambigua Passiflora ambigua Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, Miguel José Lengua HernándezPassiflora amethystina Passiflora amethystina Passifloraceae Photo: CC0, Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros Passiflora anadenia Tropical passionflower Passiflora antioquiensis Passiflora antioquiensis Banana passionfruit Photo: CC0, author not statedPassiflora apetala Passiflora apetala Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, taniaatPassiflora arida Passiflora arida Desert passionflower Photo: CC BY, Sue Carnahan all 146 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Passiflora varanzof; Passiflora racemosa var. princeps; Passiflora amabilis; Passiflora racemosa; Granadilla racemosa. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Passifloraceae
Described by
G.Lodd.
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
35 in range · 4 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Passiflora princeps G.Lodd. (plant_name_id 2560105), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 37 records of GBIF's key 3588304, Passiflora princeps G.Lodd. (Kew's file holds it as Passiflora princeps G.Lodd. (accepted)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 12273618, Passiflora racemosa var. princeps (Lodd.) G.Don (Kew's file holds it as Passiflora racemosa var. princeps (Lodd.) G.Don (synonym under Passiflora princeps G.Lodd.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -23.00_-43.125, lapse-corrected -37 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: NASA POWER's cell is mostly sea (44% land), so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 675370-1, POWO 675370-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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