Passiflora filipes (slender passionflower)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Passiflora filipes, photographed by Tom Field — fig. a Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-30 / obs. 171080865

Passiflora filipes, photographed by Arturo Castro Castro — fig. b Arturo Castro Castro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176392348

Passiflora filipes, photographed by Eric Knight — fig. d Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84120438

Passiflora filipes, photographed by Cody Stricker — fig. e Cody Stricker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80145135

Passiflora filipes, photographed by geralg — fig. f geralg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 58207280

Passiflora filipes, photographed by jmmaes — fig. g jmmaes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 57618807

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Passiflora filipes, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Colombia	CLM	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica	COS
Ecuador	ECU
El Salvador	ELS
Guatemala	GUA
Honduras	HON
Nicaragua	NIC
Venezuela	VEN
Mexico Central	MXC	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf	MXG
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Mexico Southeast	MXT
Mexico Southwest	MXS
Texas	TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 68 in flower of 85 examined

73%

92%

96%

60%

Proportion of examined Passiflora filipes in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	3	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	3	too few examined
Apr	0	1	too few examined
May	1	1	too few examined
Jun	3	4	too few examined
Jul	0	1	too few examined
Aug	2	2	too few examined
Sep	8	11	73%	43% to 90%
Oct	24	26	92%	76% to 98%
Nov	27	28	96%	82% to 99%
Dec	3	5	60%	23% to 88%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Passiflora filipes observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 68 of 85 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 202 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	11.1 °C	16.5 °C	23.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	29.8 °C	30.8 °C	34.1 °C
Annual rainfall	679 mm	1,169 mm	1,808 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	16 mm	26 mm	108 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 202 research-grade observations of Passiflora filipes that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Decaloba filipes (Benth.) M.Roem.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.