Vanilla kaniensis
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Vanilla kaniensis is a species of plant in the genus Vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). It grows as a climbing plant in New Guinea .
description
Vanilla kaniensis is an evergreen climber, the branched shoot has a diameter of 0.8 centimeters and internodes of 7 to 8 centimeters in length. The leaves are narrow oval, at the front they end with a pointed tip. The petiole measures about 1.5 inches long, the leaf is 20 to 25 inches long and 4.7 to 7 inches wide.
The racemose inflorescence bears 12 to 17 greenish yellow flowers , the lip is white with red markings. The bracts are elongated, concave and small. The ovary is about 4 inches long. The petals are oblong-oval and 3.3 inches long by 0.8 inches wide. The sepals have a blunt end, the petals have a small tip and a thickened central rib on the outside. The lip is indistinctly three-lobed, its front edge is wavy. In the middle of the lip are hairy lamellae. The column is fused with the edges of the lip up to half its length, in cross section it is semicircular, it becomes 2 centimeters long.
distribution
Vanilla kaniensis is endemic to New Guinea . She found it worse in forests at an altitude of 600 meters in the Kani Mountains .
Systematics and botanical history
After its discovery in 1908 Schlechter described this orchid in 1911. He named it after its occurrence in the Kani Mountains.
Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla kaniensis is classified in the subgenus Xanata and there in the section Thetya , which contains all species of the Paleotropic . Vanilla kaniensis is similar to Vanilla wariensis , which is also native to New Guinea , but has larger leaves, a shorter ovary and a distinctly three-lobed lip. Likewise, according to Soto Arenas and Cribb Vanilla kempteriana .
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. 221.
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Vanilla kaniensis. 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 Rudolf Schlechter: The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea. In: Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis. Leipzig 1911, Beihefte, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 31. ( pds.lib.harvard.edu ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ).
- ↑ 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. 381 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF; 692 kB ]).
