Passiflora kuranda


Passiflora kuranda is a plant in the passionfruit family Passifloraceae found only in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a tendril climber to about long and diameter, with simple leaves up to long and wide. The flowers are about wide and the fruit is about long, wide and green when ripe. It inhabits rainforest from Cooktown southwards to Cairns and the Atherton Tableland, at altitudes from near sea level to about.

Taxonomy

Passiflora kuranda was first described by Shawn Elizabeth Krosnick and Andrew James Ford in 2009. The type specimen was collected by Ford in 2003 near Atherton, Queensland. Their paper was published in the journal Systematic Botany.

Conservation

This species is listed by Queensland's Department of Environment and Science as least concern., it has not been assessed by the IUCN.