Vanilla wariensis
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Vanilla wariensis is a species of the genus Vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). It grows as a climbing plant in New Guinea , its name refers to the place where it was found on Mount Waria .
description
Vanilla wariensis is an evergreen climber with branched, cylindrical, fleshy sprouts about one centimeter in diameter. The internodes measure twelve to 17 centimeters. The leaves are oval to lanceolate, with a short, 1.5 to two centimeter long petiole at the base, the leaf ends pointed at the front. The leaves are 27 to 35 centimeters long for a type of vanilla and are five to seven centimeters wide.
The racemose , with numerous flowers occupied inflorescence is very long with 30 centimeters for a vanilla variety . The bracts are elongated, blunt and very small. The ovary becomes three inches long. The sepals measure 4.5 centimeters in length, they are oblong and end blunt. The petals are shaped identically, keeled on the outside. The base of the lip is tubular and fused with the edges of the column . Further in front the lip is three-lobed, the side lobes are turned up, the edge of the lip is wavy. On the lip there are five longitudinally thickened veins as well as two places with appendages: in the middle an approximately square place with hair, further to the base of the lip a place with rough warts. The column is hairless, with an appendage on each side of the stamen .
distribution
Vanilla wariensis is endemic to New Guinea. She found worse in 1909 at an altitude of 300 to 350 meters on Mount Waria. It is said to be common in the north of the Owen Stanley Mountains .
Systematics and botanical history
Schlechter described this orchid in 1911 after it was found in 1909.
Within the genus Vanilla , Vanilla wariensis is classified in the subgenus Xanata and there in the section Tethya , which contains all species of the Paleotropic . According Portères similar Vanilla wariensis which also occur in New Guinea Vanilla kempteriana and Southeast Asian species Vanilla albida and Vanilla platyphylla . Soto Arenas and Cribb place them in a large family group of Southeast Asian vanilla species around Vanilla kinabaluensis .
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. P. 212.
- ↑ 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. 385 ( ucr.ac.cr [PDF; 692 kB ]).
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Vanilla wariensis. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ↑ a b In: Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis. Leipzig 1911, Supplements, Volume 1: The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea. Issue 1, p. 30. ( pds.lib.harvard.edu ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ).
