Vanilla bahiana Hoehne 1950 SUBGENUS Xanata SECTION Xanata
Photos by © A. V. Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil. and His 'Orchids of the Restinga area of Bahia, Brazil', Website
Common Name The Bahia Vanilla
Flower Size
Found in Bahia Brazil
"A xerophytic inhabitant of the coastal caatinga (or restinga), often with big flowers superficially resembling those of V. pompona, with the midlobe of the lip very short. Its closest relative seems to be V. phaeantha. Like V. phaeantha, the leaves are usually much shorter than the internodes. Some specimens listed as syntypes of V. gardneri actually belong to V. bahiana." Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Lankesteriana 9(3): 355-398 Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010
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