Passiflora aurantioides is a species of passion flower native to the region from the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, to Papuasia and Queensland, Australia.
Description The petiolate, 11–12 cm long and 7 cm wide leaves are alternate.Schumann, K. M. (1893). Die Flora des deutschen ost-asiatischen Schutzgebietes. Botanische Jahrbücher Für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte Und Pflanzengeographie. Leipzig, 212. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/197969&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&url_ver=z39.88-2004 The flowers are bisexual. The pedicel is 8–10 mm long. The arillate, obovate, black seeds are 2–3 mm thick.Krosnick, S. E., Ford, A. J., & Freudenstein, J. V. (2009). "Taxonomic revision of Passiflora subgenus Tetrapathea including the monotypic genera Hollrungia and Tetrapathea (Passifloraceae), and a new species of Passiflora." Systematic Botany, 34(2), 375-385.
Taxonomy It was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann as Hollrungia aurantioides K.Schum. of a new monotypic genus Hollrungia K.Schum. in 1887. Later it was transferred to the genus Passiflora L. as Passiflora aurantioides (K.Schum.) Krosnick by Shawn Elizabeth Krosnick in 2009. The type specimen was collected by Max Hollrung in Papua New Guinea. It was destroyed. A neotype, and isoneotype was chosen.
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