Vanilla_siamensis

<i>Vanilla siamensis</i>

Vanilla siamensis

Species of orchid

Vanilla siamensis (common name: Thai vanilla) is a plant species of southern China, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It is an epiphyte that occurs in montane evergreen forests.[1]

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Description

Vanilla siamensis is an evergreen climber that forms dark green shoots several meters long and[2] 0.4[3]–2[4] centimeters in diameter. The leaves are oval, wedge-shaped at the base with a broad petiole 1.5–2.5 centimeters long. The leaf becomes elongated away from the base. The leaves grow to be 9–23 centimeters long and 4.5–10 centimeters wide.[4]

Chromosomes

The chromosome number is 2n=32.[2]

Distribution

Vanilla siamensis is found in Yunnan province of southern China, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.[5] It grows in evergreen forests at altitudes ranging from 700 to 1300 meters.[6]

Systematics

Vanilla siamensis was first described in 1925 by Dorothy G. Downie.[7]

Within the genus Vanilla, Vanilla siamensis is placed in the subgenus Xanata in the section Tethya, which contains Old World species. Vanilla pierrei, described by François Gagnepain on the basis of only one bud, is considered a synonym by Soto Arenas and Cribb. They list Vanilla abundiflora and Vanilla kinabaluensis as related species.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Vanilla siamensis". Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
  2. [2]
    Chen Xinqi, Phillip J. Cribb (2009). Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven (ed.). "Vanilla". Flora of China. 25. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press: 167.
  3. [3]
    Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. p. 217–218. (als Vanilla pierrei)
  4. [4]
    Roland Portères: Le Genre Vanilla et ses Espèces. In: Le Vanillier et la Vanille dans le Monde. p. 210–212.
  5. [5]
    "Vanilla siamensis". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. [6]
    Miguel A. Soto Arenas, Phillip Cribb (2010). "A new infrageneric classification and synopsis of the genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill. (Orchidaceae: Vanillinae)". Lankesteriana. 9 (3): 393.
  7. [7]
    In: Bull. Misc. Inf. Kew. issue 10, 1925, S. 410–411.
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