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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Vanilla planifolia
|accepted_authority=Jackson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Repos.
|place=8: plate 538. 1808
|year=1808
}}
|common_names=Vanilla;commercial vanilla;vanilla vine
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Myrobroma fragrans
|authority=Salisbury
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vanilla fragrans
|authority=(Salisbury) Ames
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae;Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae;Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Vanillinae;Vanilla;Vanilla planifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Vanillinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vanilla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vanilla planifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 507, 508, 509
|treatment_page=page 510
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Roots </b>usually 1 per node, aerial portions 2–3 mm diam. <b>Stems</b> occasionally branched, leafy, thick, 5–10 mm diam., smooth. <b>Leaves</b> persistent; blade flat, oblong-elliptic to ovate, longer than internodes, 15–25 × 5–8 cm, fleshy-leathery, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, 15-flowered racemes, short-pedunculate, to 5 cm excluding peduncle; floral bracts broadly triangular-ovate, 7–10 × 7–10 cm, leathery. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals and petals erect-spreading, yellow-green, fleshy, rigid; sepals oblanceolate, 3.5–5.5 × 1.1–1.3 cm, margins straight, apex acute to obtuse; petals elliptic-oblanceolate, abaxially keeled, thinner than sepals, 3.5–5.5 × 1.1–1.3 cm, apex acute to obtuse; lip adnate to column for 1.5–2 cm, yellow-green, becoming dark yellow toward apex, lamina gulletlike, cuneate, rhomboid, 4–5 × ± 3 cm, with apical retuse lobule; disc with central tuft of retrorse scales, several lines of short, fleshy hairs extending to apex; column white, slender, 3–3.5 cm, margins slightly sinuate, adaxially bearded; pollinia yellow; pedicellate ovary 3–5 cm. <b>Berries</b> cylindric, 15–25 × 0.8–1 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr.
|habitat=Cypress swamps, hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Trinidad);Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p>The long, slender black fruits of <i>Vanilla planifolia</i> are the vanilla “beans” of commerce.</p><!--
--><p>The natural distribution of <i>Vanilla planifolia</i> is most likely tropical evergreen forests of eastern Mexico and the Caribbean watersheds of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras (M. Soto Arenas, pers. comm.). It has been cultivated and escaped or persisted in many areas of the tropics, including south Florida. It is known in the flora area from Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida (P. M. Brown 2002).</p><!--
--><p>Pollinators are euglossine bees (J. D. Ackerman 1983), which do not occur in Florida. Natural pollination has been recorded in Florida, although very rarely (C. A. Luer 1972).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Vanilla planifolia
|authority=Jackson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Myrobroma fragrans;Vanilla fragrans
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr.
|habitat=Cypress swamps, hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (Trinidad);Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Repos.
|publication year=1808
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Vanillinae
|genus=Vanilla
|species=Vanilla planifolia
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