This introduced vine or climber is commonly known as stinking passionflower.
Passiflora vesicaria is described as a "dicot" in the Passifloraceae family.
In the Queensland Nature Conservation Act it is not classified as it is not native to Queensland. Under the Federal Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act it is not classified.
See https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/136007066 and "A Revision of Passiflora section Dysosmia" by John Vanderplank (2013): https://www.jstor.org/stable/45066258.
Native to the northern parts of South America. P. foetida records in Australia are likely to be misidentified and actually P. vesicaria. P. foetida has flowers with coronal filaments that are bluish-purple or bluish-purple and white and fruit that is hairy, typically non-glossy, and remains green/yellow-green at full maturity. P. vesicaria has flowers with coronal filaments that are wine red, pink, or purple in their basal half and white in their distal half and fruit that is hairless or sparsely hairy, glossy, and turns orange at full maturity. (Joshua Ekrut).
It has not been recorded in the Wide Bay district in the Queensland Herbarium Census and is not listed as occurring in the Fraser Coast region in Queensland Herbarium Wildlife Online.
Reported at 2 Fraser Coast localities: Teebar, Urraween.
Fraser Coast distribution based on unverified field reports.
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