Vanilla calyculata
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Vanilla calyculata is a plant from the genus vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the family of orchid (Orchidaceae). The climbing plant is found in Colombia .
description
Vanilla calyculata is an evergreen climber with a stem diameter of 0.6 centimeters. The leaves sit on the stem without a petiole, they are lanceolate to oblong, pointed at the front. The leaf length is about 10 centimeters and 2.3 to 2.7 centimeters wide.
The racemose inflorescence bears numerous flowers close together . The bracts are oval and end blunt. The ovary becomes 3.5 centimeters long, at the transition to the petals there is a bowl-shaped, slightly lobed widening that resembles a calyx . The petals are elongated and blunt, they reach a length of 5 centimeters. The inner petals are thinner in texture than the sepals . The lip becomes 3 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. At the base, the lip is narrow and the sides are fused with the column over the entire length of the column . The front free part is rhombic-oval and wavy on the edge. Three or five longitudinal veins on the lip are thickened, in the middle of the lip there is a tuft of hair. The column is 3.5 centimeters long.
distribution
Vanilla calyculata is known from Colombia , El Salvador and Honduras . It inhabits relatively high-altitude areas.
Systematics and botanical history
This orchid was described by Rudolf Schlechter in 1920 . The collection on which the first description is based was made in the Department of Cauca in Colombia. The type specimen was lost when the Berlin herbarium was destroyed , so that assignments of newer collections to Vanilla calyculata are uncertain.
Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla calyculata is classified in the subgenus Xanata and there in the section Xanata , which only contains species of the Neotropics . Portères indicated Vanilla sprucei as the closest related species , while Schlechter called Vanilla chamissonis . According to Soto Arenas and Cribb , Schlechter's assessment is correct; other related species are Vanilla columbiana , Vanilla grandiflora , Vanilla pompona , Vanilla pseudopompona and Vanilla vellozii .
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 Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. P. 247.
- ↑ a b Rudolf Schlechter: The orchid flowers of the South American Cordilleras II. Colombia. In: Friedrich Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis. Leipzig 1920, Beihefte, Volume VII, p. 42. ( pds.lib.harvard.edu ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ).
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Vanilla calyculata. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Miguel A. Soto Arenas, Phillip Cribb: A new infrageeric classification and synopsis of the genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill. (Orchidaceae: Vanillinae) . In: Lankesteriana . tape 9 , no. 3 , 2010, p. 368 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF]).
