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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen
| name = ''Passiflora vitifolia''
| image = Passiflora vitifolia flower.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = [[Passifloraceae]]
| genus = ''[[Passiflora]]''
| species = '''''P. vitifolia'''''
| binomial = ''Passiflora vitifolia''
| binomial_authority = [[Kunth]]
}}

'''''Passiflora vitifolia''''' is a species of ''[[Passiflora]]'', native to southern [[Central America]] ([[Costa Rica]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Panama]]) and northwestern [[South America]] ([[Venezuela]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]]). It is a [[vine]] with cylindric stems covered in red-brown hairs when young. The [[leaf|leaves]] are three-lobed, up to 15 cm long and 18 cm broad. The [[flower]]s are bright red, up to 9 cm diameter. The [[fruit]] is a [[berry]] 5 cm long and 3 cm broad, containing numerous [[seed]]s.<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?27016 ''Passiflora vitifolia'']</ref><ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.</ref>

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