Difference between revisions of "Vanilla dilloniana"
Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 15: 331, figs. 1–7. 1946.
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae | |subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae | ||
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae | |tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae | ||
Revision as of 16:40, 18 September 2019
Roots usually 1 per node, gray, 1–1.5 mm diam., villous and thicker when in contact with substrate, glabrous when aerial. Stems 4–8 mm diam., thick, smooth, internodes to 20 cm. Leaves with at least some persistent, fleshy; blade to 8 cm, margins somewhat involute, apex hooked. Inflorescences axillary, 15-flowered racemes, short-pedunculate, to 9 cm excluding peduncle; floral bracts broadly ovate, 2–13 mm, fleshy. Flowers: sepals and petals distinct and free, light green; dorsal sepal narrowly oblong-elliptic, slightly concave, 4.8–5.5 × 0.8–1.2 cm, apex obtuse to acute; lateral sepals elliptic-oblanceolate, slightly falcate, 4.5–5 × 0.9–1.3 cm; petals narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, abaxially keeled, 4.1–5 × 1.1–1.4 cm, apex acute; lip arching over column, reddish purple, becoming very pale at margin edge and within throat, broadly obovate, obscurely 3-lobed, 4–5 × 4–5 cm when spread, margins basally involute; claw and basal margins adnate to column for more than 1/2 its length, free portion crenulate; disc with broad thickened midrib extending length of lip, distal 1.5 cm of midrib with erect, scattered, thick, sometimes forked hairs, 1–2.5 mm, with hinged, stiff beard ± 1 cm at middle of disc midrib, midrib glabrous proximal to beard; disc flanking midrib glabrous but with numerous short fleshy hairs extending to lateral margins of throat, within 5–10 mm of apical margin; column arched, slender, 3.2 cm; pollinia yellow; pedicellate ovary 4.7–5 cm. Berries pendent, green, darkening at maturity, fusiform-clavate, 16 × 1.2 cm.
Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Hammocks
Elevation: 0–20 m
Distribution
Fla., West Indies.
Discussion
Vanilla dilloniana is known in the flora from Paradise Key, Everglades National Park, Miami-Dade County, Florida (P. M. Brown 2002).
Selected References
None.