Vanilla trigonocarpa Hoehne 1944 Photo by © Costa Rica Linda Page

Common Name The Triangular Seed Pod Vanilla

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and northern Brazil as a large sized, viney epiphyte with a thin stem carrying elliptic, strongly acuminate, gradually narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaves that blooms at least in the summer on a successively to several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Vanilla pauciflora Dressler 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo similar;

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