Vanilla hartii Rolfe 1899 SUBGENUS Xanata SECTION Xanata

Photo by © Soto Arenas and Dressler and The Research Gate Webpage - A revision of the Mexican and Central American species of Vanilla Plumier ex Miller with a characterization of their ITS region of the nuclear ribosomal DNA Sto Arenas and Dressler 2010

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Common Name Hart's Vanilla

Flower Size 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Windward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Fr Guiana, Surinam and Brazil in very wet and pluvial forests at elevations 50 to 1200 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a vine like stem carrying elliptic, coriaceous, acuminate leaves tht blooms in the winter on an axillary, .2 to .6" [.5 to 1.5 cm] long, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate floral bracts.

"Vanilla hartii is an interesting species with a weak vegetative habit similar to that of V. bicolor. However, it presents flowers, and especially a penicillate callus with the structure of the V. planifolia group, with which it has been confused." Soto & Cribb 2010

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Lankesteriana 9(3): 305-309, f. 6. Soto Arenas 2010 Drawing fide;Lankesteriana 9(3): 355-398 Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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