Vanilla kinabaluensis

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

Vanilla kinabaluensis is a species of vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). It grows as a climbing plant in Southeast Asia.

description

Vanilla kinabaluensis is an evergreen climber, it reaches a height of six meters and more. The leaves are elongated to lanceolate, they end in a short, clearly blunt tip. The petiole is up to 1.5 centimeters long, the whole leaf measures up to 32 centimeters in length and eleven centimeters in width.

The racemose inflorescence is relatively long with up to 30 centimeters. It can contain up to 165 flowers that bloom one after the other. The bracts are oval, slightly pointed and about 0.5 centimeters in size. The flowers are yellow, the lip white with red markings. The sepals are oblong-oval to lanceolate, usually widest above the center, 5.3 to six inches long and two inches wide, the edges slightly rolled up. The petals are similar in shape and dimensions, slightly wider at 2.4 centimeters, more blunt at the end, clearly keeled on the outside. The lip is three-lobed with three longitudinal keels that end in finer lamellae towards the front. The edge of the lip is very wavy. A tuft of hair sits in the middle of the lip. On a white background, the lip is veined purple at the base, in front there is a yellow, red blotch. The column is 4.2 centimeters long, three quarters of its length is fused with the sides of the lip to form a tube.

distribution

Vanilla kinabaluensis occurs in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. It grows in rainforests at altitudes of 900 to 1000 meters.

Systematics and botanical history

This orchid was described by Cedric Errol Carr in 1936 . The name refers to Mount Kinabalu .

Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla kinabaluensis is classified in the subgenus Xanata and there in the section Thetya , which contains all species of the paleotropic species . According to Portères , it is similar to the Vanilla abundiflora found in Borneo , but has larger flowers and lacks the appendages on the column. Soto Arenas and Cribb designate an affinity group to Vanilla kinabaluensis , containing the species Vanilla abundiflora, Vanilla giullianetii , Vanilla kaniensis , Vanilla kempteriana , Vanilla ovalis , Vanilla platyphylla , Vanilla ramificans , Vanilla siamensis , Vanilla seranica , Vanilla sumatrana , Vanilla utteridgei and Vanilla wariensis .

literature

  • Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde . In: Gilbert Bouriquet (ed.): Encyclopédie Biologique . tape XLVI . Paul Lechevalier, Paris 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. P. 216.
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 382 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF; 692 kB ]).
  3. ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Vanilla kinabaluensis. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ In: Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. Volume 8, 1936, p. 176.