Passiflora sexfloraJuss.

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WFO wfo-0000480111 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. a Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-08 / obs. 110065469
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Saban-Sequén, E.A.
fig. b Saban-Sequén, E.A., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108113679
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. c Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105927949
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Grete Pasch
fig. d Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100918201
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. e Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178788311
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Grete Pasch
fig. f Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93864234
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. g Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186764285
Passiflora sexflora, photographed by Grete Pasch
fig. h Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142942032

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
968963
Filed as
Passiflora sexflora Juss.
Det. by
J. M. MacDougal 2011-01-01
Collected
B. M. Boom 1990-03-17
Origin
PR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Passiflora sexflora is native: Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico FloridaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto Rico Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Passiflora sexflora, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 257 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.9 °C 13.8 °C 19.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.8 °C 25.1 °C 30.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,223 mm 2,330 mm 5,121 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 21 mm 255 mm 522 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 257 research-grade observations of Passiflora sexflora 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.

Also published as 15 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.

  • Cieca pannosa (Sm.) M.Roem.
  • Decaloba sexflora (Juss.) M.Roem.
  • Disemma floribunda Fourn.
  • Lortetia sexflora Ser.
  • Meioperis pannosa (Sm.) Raf.
  • Passiflora capsularis var. geminiflora Mast.
  • Passiflora capsularis var. geminifolia DC.
  • Passiflora floribunda Lem.
  • Passiflora isotriloba Cufod.
  • Passiflora melahelos Gilli
  • Passiflora miraflorensis Killip
  • Passiflora obscura G.Don
  • Passiflora pannosa Sm.
  • Passiflora rugosissima Killip
  • Passiflora triflora Macfad., Fawc. & Rendle

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.