Vanilla phaeantha: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Vanilla
- Species
- Vanilla phaeantha
- Scientific Name
- Vanilla phaeantha
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Vanilla phaeantha
Vanilla phaeantha, common name leafy vanilla or oblong-leaved vanilla, is a plant species known to occur in many areas of the Neotropics, namely in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad & Tobago, Martinique, Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico and also in Collier County, Florida, USA. In Florida it occurs in cypress swamps and hammocks at elevations of less than 20 m (67 feet).
Vanilla phaeantha has persistent, leathery, flat leaves up to 15 cm long, hence about the same length as the internodes or slightly shorter. Flowers are borne in racemes of about 12 flowers, located in the axils of the leaves. Sepals and petals are green, leathery and rigid except for the yellow to cream-colored lip. Fruits are cylindrical, up to 10 cm (4 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) in diameter.
...Vanilla phaeantha in languages:
- Chinese
- 多葉香莢蘭
- English
- Leafy Vanilla
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Vanilla acuminata
- Vanilla africana
- Vanilla albida
- Vanilla andamanica
- Vanilla angustipetala
- Vanilla annamica
- Vanilla aphylla
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- Vanilla arcuata
- Vanilla bahiana
- Vanilla barbellata
- Vanilla bicolor
- Vanilla borneensis
- Vanilla chamissonis
- Vanilla claviculata
- Vanilla columbiana
- Vanilla costaricensis
- Vanilla coursii
- Vanilla cribbiana
- Vanilla decaryana
- Vanilla diabolica
- Vanilla dietschiana
- Vanilla dilloniana
- Vanilla dressleri
- Vanilla edwallii
- Vanilla fimbriata
- Vanilla francoisii
- Vanilla griffithii
- Vanilla guianensis
- Vanilla hartii
- Vanilla helleri
- Vanilla hostmannii
- Vanilla humblotii
- Vanilla imperialis
- Vanilla inodora
- Vanilla insignis
- Vanilla karen-christianae
- Vanilla kinabaluensis
- Vanilla labellopapillata
- Vanilla madagascariensis
- Vanilla methonica
- Vanilla mexicana
- Vanilla moonii
- Vanilla odorata
- Vanilla ovalis
- Vanilla palmarum
- Vanilla parvifolia
- Vanilla perrieri
- Vanilla phaeantha
- Vanilla phalaenopsis
- Vanilla planifolia
- Vanilla planifolia × vanilla tahitensis
- Vanilla platyphylla
- Vanilla poitaei
- Vanilla polylepis
- Vanilla pompona
- Vanilla raabii
- Vanilla rivasii
- Vanilla roscheri
- Vanilla ruiziana
- Vanilla shenzhenica
- Vanilla siamensis
- Vanilla somae
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