Vanilla havilandii Rolfe 1918 SUBGENUS Xanata SECTION Tethya
Photo by © Anthony Lamb
Collection sheet by © Ridley and The Kew Herbaria of the world Website
Common Name Haviland's Vanilla [English Original collector of the type 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Borneo in secondary forests, riverine and lowland dipterocarp forests at elevatons of 200 to 500 meters as a viney, hot growing terrestral
"A species somewhat similar to the Javanese V. albida, but with congested, many-flowered inflorescences bearing pendent flowers, apparently with flared tepals. The oblong-elliptic, long-acuminate leaves are rather thin in substance." Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Lankesteriana 9(3): 355-398 Soto Arenas & Cribb 2010; Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide
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