Passiflora foetidaL.

Stinking Passionflower

WFO wfo-0000479879 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Passiflora foetida, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. a Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 204346307
Passiflora foetida, photographed by ritirene
fig. b ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203633103
Passiflora foetida, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199569039
Passiflora foetida, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202373943
Passiflora foetida, photographed by Oscar Gonzalez Diaz
fig. e Oscar Gonzalez Diaz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201052036
Passiflora foetida, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202611788
Passiflora foetida, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199580217
Passiflora foetida, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202884283

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Flowering n = 1,190 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 1,190 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 37 synonyms

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 obscura (Lindl.) M.Roem.
  • Dysosmia fluminensis M.Roem.
  • Dysosmia foetida (L.) M.Roem.
  • Dysosmia gossypiifolia (Desv.) M.Roem.
  • Dysosmia nigelliflora M.Roem.
  • Dysosmia polyadena (Vell.) M.Roem.
  • Granadilla foetida (L.) Gaertn.
  • Passiflora balansae Chodat
  • Passiflora baraquiniana Lem.
  • Passiflora foetida f. latifolia Kuntze
  • Passiflora foetida f. longifolia Kuntze
  • Passiflora foetida f. suberecta Chodat & Hassl.
  • Passiflora foetida var. balansae Chodat
  • Passiflora foetida var. baraquiniana (Lem.) Vanderpl.
  • Passiflora foetida var. ellisonii Vanderpl.
  • Passiflora foetida var. fluminensis (M.Roem.) Killip
  • Passiflora foetida var. gardneri Killip
  • Passiflora foetida var. glaziovii Killip
  • Passiflora foetida var. gossypiifolia (Desv. ex Ham.) Mast.
  • Passiflora foetida var. longipedunculata Killip
  • Passiflora foetida var. moritziana (Planch.) Killip
  • Passiflora foetida var. muralis (Barb.Rodr.) Killip
  • Passiflora foetida var. pectinata M.Holtze
  • Passiflora foetida var. sericea Chodat & Hassl.

and 13 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

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