Vanilla chamissonis
Vanilla chamissonis
Vanilla chamissonis is a plant of the genus Vanilla ( Vanilla ) in the orchid family ( Orchidaceae). The climber has their range in South America.
Description
Vanilla chamissonis is an evergreen climber. The shoot axis is fleshy, round in cross section, with a diameter of 1.5 to 2.5 inches thick for a very vanilla way. The shoot axis is slightly bent at the nodes and grows in a slight zig -zag pattern. The leaves are elongated oval to lanceolate, up front they end pointed, the leaf base is narrowed abruptly. The petiole is 1 centimeter long, the blade length is 17 to 30 centimeters, width 2.5 to 5.5 centimeters. The leaf margin is slightly curved downward.
The inflorescence axis is 8 to 12 inches long and carries 10 to 20 large flowers. The bracts are 0.3 to 1.2 inches long and up to 0.3 inches wide, shaped oblong and concave, blunt ending. The ovary is 4 to 5 inches long. The sepals and lateral petals are lanceolate. The outer petals are 5-6 inches long with 0.9 to 1.2 centimeters wide, the inner petals are slightly longer and narrower. The lip is 7 to 7.5 centimeters little longer, three-lobed, the front edge is wavy. What is striking is the long middle lobe of the lip. Centered on the lip extending along some thickened veins in the middle of the lip sits a tuft of hair. The column is 3 to 4 inches long, front is provided with two lateral appendages, their underside is velvety hairy. The sweet aromatic odor, dark brown ripen fruit reaches 13 to 15 inches long, in cross-section it is slightly triangular in shape and measures 2 centimeters.
A pollination by the bats Artibeus jamaicensis and Glossophaga soricina was observed.
Dissemination
Vanilla chamissonis is detected from Brazil.
Systematics and Botanical History
This orchid species described Johann Friedrich Klotzsch in 1846 in honor of Adelbert von Chamisso. Within the genus Vanilla Vanilla chamissonis, is classified in the subgenus Xanata and there in the section Xanata that contains only species of the Neotropics. While Vanilla is vellozii often viewed only as a variety of Vanilla chamissonis, it is to Soto Arenas and Cribb an independent Art Other related species are calyculata Vanilla, Vanilla columbiana, Vanilla grandiflora, Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla pseudopompona.