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Passiflora foetida L.

Synonym	:	Passiflora foetida var. balansae Chodat
Family	:	Passifloraceae
Local name	:	English- Stinking Passion flower Malayalam- Poochapazham
Flowering and fruiting period	:	July to September, Fruit ripes during October
Distribution	:	India: Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Odisha, Maharastra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
Distribution in Kerala	:	All districts
Habitat	:	Very common along roadsides, thickets and water courses from plains to 750m.
Uses	:	Folk medicine
Key botanical characters:  A vine with densely hispid branchlets. Leaves usually 3-5-lobed to halfway, suborbicular -ovate, appressed glandular-pubescent, base cordate, margin subentire to ciliate, apex acute; stipules sub-reniform, deeply cleft into glandular processes. Flowers about 4 cm across, axillary, often solitary; bract and bracteoles 2-3 cm, deeply pinnateisect, glandular -pubescent. Calyx tube short, saucer shaped, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Petals slightly shorter than the calyx lobes. Androgynophore 4-6 mm. Ovary globose. Fruit berry, subglobose, approximately 4 cm across.