Vanilla fimbriata
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Vanilla fimbriata is a plant from the genus vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the family of orchid (Orchidaceae). The climbing plant occurs in Guyana .
description
Vanilla fimbriata is an evergreen climber. The leaves sit at intervals of 7.5 to 13 centimeters on the shoot, they are lanceolate to narrowly elongated in shape, pointed to long at the front, with a short, 0.3 to 0.6 centimeter petiole. The leaf length is 3.5 to 13.5 centimeters with a width of 1 to 2 centimeters.
The short, 2 to 3 centimeters measuring, racemose inflorescence axis bears several flowers . They are green on the outside, light green to whitish on the inside, the lip whitish, yellow at the base. The oval or elongated, blunt-ended bracts reach 0.4 to 0.8 centimeters in length. The ovary becomes 2 to 3 inches long. The petals are narrowly lanceolate, they end almost blunt and reach a length of 1.6 to 3 centimeters. The lip becomes just as long and about 0.6 inches wide. It ends bluntly, its edge is fringed. The sides of the lip are fused with it over the entire length of the column . The veins on the edge of the lip protrude slightly, in the middle of the lip sits a tuft of hair directed backwards. The column is 1.2 to 2.2 inches long.
distribution
Vanilla fimbriata is known from Brazil and Guyana. It was collected by Jenman on the Barima River.
Systematics and botanical history
This orchid was described by Rolfe in 1899 .
Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla fimbriata is classified in the sub-genus Xanata and there in the section Xanata , which only contains species of the Neotropics . According to Soto Arenas and Cribb , it is closely related or even synonymous with Vanilla odorata . The differences are the larger number of flowers as well as smaller leaves and flowers in Vanilla fimbriata .
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 Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. Pp. 245-247.
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Vanilla fimbriata. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ↑ 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. 376 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF; 692 kB ]).