# Passiflora subg. Astrophea

Passiflora subg. Astrophea is a group of Passiflora species that are lianas, shrubs and trees found in South America.

## Taxonomy

It was first published as Passiflora sect. Astrophea DC. by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1822. The lectotype is Passiflora glauca. It was elevated to the subgenus Passiflora subg. Astrophea (DC.) Mast. published by Maxwell T. Masters in 1871.

### Species

| Supersection | Section | Series | Scientific name | Distribution |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora araguensis | Venezuela (Aragua, Distrito Federal, and Miranda) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora arborea | Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, Tolima, Valle del Cauca), Ecuador (Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Cajamarca) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora callistemma | Colombia (Bolívar) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora caucaense | Colombia (Cauca department) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora emarginata | Colombia (Cauca, Chocó, Nariño, Tolima, Valle del Cauca) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora engleriana | Colombia (Antioquia and Cundinamarca) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora frutescens | Peru (Huánuco) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora lindeniana | Colombia (Norte de Santander), Venezuela (Aragua, Falcón, and Mérida) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora macrophylla | Colombia (Antioquia and Chocó), Ecuador (Bolívar, Cañar, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Loja, Los Ríos, Manabí, Napo, Pichincha, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas), Panama (Darién) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora ocanensis | Colombia (Norte de Santander) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora ovata | Colombia (Magdalena), French Guiana (Cayenne), Guyana, Venezuela (Bolívar) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora pubera | Colombia (Antioquia, Huila, Magdalena, Santander, Tolima, and Valle del Cauca) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora putumayensis | Colombia (Caquetá), Ecuador (Napo and Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Amazonas and Pasco) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora schultzei | Colombia (Cundinamarca) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora sphaerocarpa | Colombia (Cundinamarca, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle de Cauca) |
| Astrophea | Astrophea | | Passiflora tica | Colombia (Antioquia and Chocó), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, San José), Panama (Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, San Blas) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora cauliflora | Colombia (Amazonas and Vichada), Ecuador (Napo), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín, Ucayali), Venezuela (Amazonas) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora ceratocarpa | Brazil (Maranhão and Pará) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora cerradensis | Brazil (Mato Grosso) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora faroana | Brazil (Amazonas, Maranhão, and Pará) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora haughtii | Colombia (Santander) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora hexagonocarpa | Brazil (Rondônia and Amazonas) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora jussieui | French Guiana |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora maguirei | Guyana (Mazaruni-Potaro), Venezuela (Amazonas) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora mariquitensis | Colombia (Tolima) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora mutisii | Colombia |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora nuriensis | Venezuela (Bolívar) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora pittieri | Belize (Toledo), Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Colombia (Antioquia, Chocó, Tolima), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Puntarenas), Guatemala (Izabal), Nicaragua (Atlántico Sur and Río San Juan), Panama (Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, San Blas, Veraguas) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora quelchii | Guyana (Rupununi) and Suriname (Sipaliwini) |
| Astrophea | Capreolata | | Passiflora tina | Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Pichincha) |
| Astrophea | Leptopoda | | Passiflora leptopoda | Brazil (Amazonas and Roraima), Guyana (Runpununi), Suriname (Sipaliwini) |
| Astrophea | Leptopoda | | Passiflora plumosa | French Guiana (Sommet Tabulaire) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora alliacea | Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora candida | Brazil (Amazonas and Pará), French Guiana (Cayenne), Guyana (Essequibo) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora cardonae | Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora chlorina | Brazil (Mina Gerais) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora cirrhipes | Peru (San Martín) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora costata | Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia), Guyana (Essequibo and Mazaruni-Potaro), Peru (Amazonas and Loreto); Suriname (Brokopondo, Coronie, Sipaliwini districts), Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora deficiens | Guyana (Mazaruni-Potaro) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora elliptica | Brazil (Bahia and Rio de Janeiro) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora grandis | Colombia (Norte de Santander) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora haematostigma | Brazil (Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora kawensis | French Guiana (Cayenne) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora mansoi | Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, and Rio Grande do Sul) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora pentagona | Brazil (Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora phaeocaula | Colombia (Guainía), Brazil (Amazonas) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora rhamnifolia | Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora sclerophylla | Guyana, Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora skiantha | Ecuador (Orellana) and Peru (Loreto) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora tessmannii | Ecuador (Sucumbíos), Peru (Loreto and San Martín) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora trochlearis | Ecuador (Pichincha) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora venosa | Bolivia (Cochabamba and La Paz) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Pseudoastrophea | | Passiflora vescoi | French Guiana (Cacao) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora aurantiflorescentis | Venezuela |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora holtii | Brazil (Amazonas and Goiás), Colombia (Guainía and Vaupés), Peru (Lorento), Venezuela (Amazonas) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora pyrrhantha | Colombia (Guaviare), Ecuador (Morona-Santiago, Napo, Pastaza, Sucumbíos, Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto and San Martín), Venezuela (Amazonas, Mérida and Táchira) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora rusbyi | Bolivia (Pando), Brazil (Acre and Amazonas), Ecuador (Napo) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora securiclata | Brazil (Acre and Roraima), Colombia (Caquetá, Meta, and Vichada), Guyana (Essequibo), Venezuela (Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Apure, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Zulia) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora spicata | Brazil (Amazonas) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora spinosa | Bolivia (Beni and Pando), Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Paraíba, Roraima); Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Caquetá, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Santander), Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe, Napo, Orellana, Morona-Santiago), Peru (Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín, Ucayali), Venezuela (Amazonas) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora amoena | French Guiana and Guyana |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora ascidia | Venezuela (Bolívar) and Guyana (Potaro-Siparuni) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora balbis | Brazil (Roraima and Amazonas), Guyana (Potaro-Siparuni and Essequibo), Venezuela (Bolívar and Amazonas) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora fuchsiflora | Surinam, French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil (Amapá), Venezuela (Bolívar) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora longiracemosa | Brazil (Pará), Guyana (Takutu and Essequibo) |
| Pseudoastrophea | Botryastrophea | Botryastrophea | Passiflora saulensis | French Guiana (Saül commune) |