tacsonia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a chiefly Andean passionflower formerly placed in the genus Tacsonia and now classified within Passiflora, typically with a long floral tube

   The conservatory trained a scarlet tacsonia along a high trellis.

From the former New Latin genus name Tacsonia, a Latinization of tacso, a Peruvian vernacular name for these passionflowers. Modern classifications place the group within Passiflora, commonly as subgenus or supersection Tacsonia.

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