Vanilla barbellata Rchb.f 1865 Photo by © Rick Cruz and his Photography Website
Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillannae
Plant Base and Host Tree Photos by Jay Pfahl
Inflorescence ensitu Florida Keys
Plant and flowers ensitu Florida Keys Photos courtesy of Alison Higgins-Land Stewardship Coordinator-The Nature Conservancy of the Florida Keys
Flower and Plant En situ Big Pine Key Photo courtesy of Yvonne Kostic
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Common Name Link-Vine; Worm-Vine; Snake Orchid; Leafless Vanilla - The Small Bearded Vanilla
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in South Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, the leeward Islands and Puerto Rico at sealevel to 500 meters as a large sized hot to warm growing epiphyte with terete, branching, succulent stems carrying, lanceolate, short-lived leaves that blooms on a short, axillary, racemose, several [12] flowered inflorescence with fleshy, fragrant, short-lived, successive opening flowers occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Vanilla articulata Northrop. 1902
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as V articulata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide; Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin Vol 47 No 2 1992 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 10 1993 photo; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide; An Orchid Flora of Peurto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 4 2000 photo; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 11 2006 photo
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