Vanilla perrieri Schltr. 1924 SUBGENUS Xanata SECTION Tethya

Photo by © Cribb & Hermans and The Kew "Save The Vanilla Perrieri" Website

Common Name Perrier's Vanilla [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in western and southern Madagascar in seasonally dry, deciduous woods on sandy soils at elevations around 200 to 350 meters as a large sized, hot growing viney epiphyte with a long, climbing, very branching , greyish green stems, that blooms in the spring and summer on a subcorymbiform, then elongating, successively single, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovoid-deltoid, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts .

"This leafless Vanilla is similar to the V. madagascariensis complex, but it has yellow flowers with a dark brownish throat of the lip. Its closest relative is V. humblotii.” Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Lankesteriana 9(3): 355-398 Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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