Passiflora bryonioides, the cupped passionflower, is a plant in the genus Passiflora, family Passifloraceae. It is native to northern Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Guanajuato) and the south-western United States (Arizona).Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund, in Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, et al., Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 2: 140–141. 1817Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994b. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
The plant is a perennial vine up to 2 m tall that climbs via tendrils and has palmately-lobed leaves. Flowers are white with purple stripes along the petals. Fruits are pale green and ovoid.MacDougal, John M. 2001. Passifloraceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).MacDougal, J. M. 1994. Revision of Passiflora subgenus Decaloba section Pseudodysosmia (Passifloraceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 41: 1–146.
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