Vanilla abundiflora
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Vanilla abundiflora is a species of vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). It grows as a climbing plant in Borneo .
description
Vanilla abundiflora is an evergreen climber, it reaches ten to 20 meters in height. The shoot reaches 1.3 to 1.6 centimeters in diameter, the internodes are 6.5 to nine centimeters long. The leaves are elongated oval, pointed at the front; the petiole is about 1.5 inches long, the whole leaf measures 25 inches in length and 8.75 inches in width.
The racemose inflorescence is up to 30 centimeters long and carries up to 150 large flowers . The bracts are concave, blunt and 0.35 inches long. The petals are about two inches long. The dorsal sepal is lanceolate, slightly concave, ending bluntly, widest above the middle (1.5 centimeters). The lateral sepals are oblong-oval, pointed, up to 1.75 centimeters wide. The petals resemble the lateral sepals, on the outside they are clearly keeled. The lip is indistinctly three-lobed, the sides are turned up, the front edge of the lip is curled and puckered. A tuft of hair sits in the middle of the lip. The column is 3.2 centimeters long, hairless except for a tuft of branched trichomes opposite the one on the lip. The capsule fruit becomes 25 centimeters long with two centimeters in diameter, in cross section it is oval. When ripe, the fruit turns yellowish-brown and is similarly aromatic, although less intense than the spiced vanilla ( Vanilla planifolia ).
distribution
Vanilla abundiflora is endemic to Borneo. It grows in swampy or temporarily flooded forests of the lowlands.
Systematics and botanical history
This orchid was described by Johannes Jacobus Smith in 1920 using a specimen collected by Teyssmann .
Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla abundiflora is classified in the subgenus Xanata and there in the section Thethya , which contains all species of the paleotropic plants . Soto Arenas and Cribb compare it to Vanilla kinabaluensis , which, however, has larger flowers and more noticeable hairiness on the lip. According to Portères , it is similar to Vanilla platyphylla found on Sulawesi .
literature
- Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde . In: Gilbert Bouriquet (ed.): Encyclopédie Biologique . tape XLVI . Paul Lechevalier, Paris 1954.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. Pp. 213-214.
- ↑ a b Miguel A. Soto Arenas, Phillip Cribb: A new infrageneric classification and synopsis of the genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill. (Orchidaceae: Vanillinae) . In: Lankesteriana . tape 9 , no. 3 , 2010, p. 366-367 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF]).
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Vanilla abundiflora. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ↑ In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg. III, 2, 1920, p. 21.