Vanilla palmarum (Salzm. ex Lindl.) Lindl. 1840 Photo by © Mauro Peixoto

Common Name The Palm Loving Vanilla

Flower Size

Found in Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in rainforests and palm swamps at elevations of 50 to 400 meters as a large sized, hot and pendant growing epiphyte with a glabrous, light green, many branched stem carrying yellow green leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, racemose, succcessively often many flowered inflorescence

This is a very tentative ID as I have no solid references to go by. Use with extreme caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as V palmarum var angustifolia drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing hmm; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo not; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

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