Vanilla hamata

Vanilla hamata
Systematics
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Orchids (orchidaceae)
Subfamily :	Vanilloideae
Tribe :	Vanilleae
Genre :	Vanilla ( vanilla )
Type :	Vanilla hamata
Scientific name
	Vanilla hamata
	Klotzsch

Vanilla hamata is a species of vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). The climbing plant is found in Peru .

description

Vanilla hamata is an evergreen climber. The length of the internodes is 10 to 11 centimeters. The short-stalked leaves are broadly oval in shape, rounded at the front with an attached, curved tip. The leaf length is 13 to 15 (- 18) centimeters, the width 9 centimeters.

The short, racemose inflorescence axis bears nine or more flowers . The sepals and lateral petals are elongated to lanceolate, widest above the middle, they end blunt and are 7.5 centimeters long. The lip becomes 5 centimeters long, it is only very indistinctly lobed, it also ends bluntly. The edge of the lip is wavy. Three protruding veins run along the lip, in the middle of the lip there is a tuft of hair. The column becomes 3 centimeters long.

distribution

Vanilla hamata is only known from Peru. The province Huánuco is worse as a location. The plants grow in light forests. Portères connects a note by Humboldt about a type of vanilla with aromatic fruits from the Peruvian province of Jaén with Vanilla hamata .

Systematics and botanical history

This orchid was described by Klotzsch in 1846 , after a collection of non-flowering plants by Ruiz and Pavón .

Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla hamata is classified in the sub-genus Xanata and there in the section Xanata , which only contains species of the Neotropics . Soto Arenas and Cribb place them in the Vanilla pompona group, which also includes Vanilla calyculata , Vanilla chamissonis , Vanilla columbiana , Vanilla grandiflora , 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.
Charles Schweinfurth: Orchids of Peru . In: Chicago Natural History Museum (ed.): Fieldiana . tape 30 , no. 1 , 1958, p. 42-43 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. P. 233.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Charles Schweinfurth: Orchids of Peru. In: Fieldiana. Volume 30, No. 1, pp. 42-43.
↑ ^a ^b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Vanilla hamata. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
^ Rudolf Schlechter: The orchid flowers of the South American Cordilleras IV. Peru . In: Friedrich Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis. Booklets . tape 9 . Leipzig 1921, p. 121 .
↑ 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. 378-379 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF; 692 kB ]).

[Portères1954-1] Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. P. 233.

[Schweinfurth1958-2] A ^b ^c ^d Charles Schweinfurth: Orchids of Peru. In: Fieldiana. Volume 30, No. 1, pp. 42-43.

[WCSP-3] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Vanilla hamata. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 19, 2020.

[Schlechter1921-4] Rudolf Schlechter: The orchid flowers of the South American Cordilleras IV. Peru . In: Friedrich Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis. Booklets . tape 9 . Leipzig 1921, p. 121 .

[SotoArenasCribb-5] 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. 378-379 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF; 692 kB ]).