Sunday, July 12, 2020

[Botany • 2020] Vanilla armoriquensis (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae) Living in the Clouds: A New High-elevation Species of Vanilla from Peru


Vanilla armoriquensis Damian & Mitidieri 

in Damian & Mitidieri, 2020. 
Illustration by Robb Niklasson

Abstract
Vanilla armoriquensis, a new species belonging to subgen. Vanilla, is described and illustrated based on living material from Peru. The new species is similar to V. costaricensis but can be easily distinguished by the larger sepals and petals, and a lip with a well-developed triangular apex, bearing a callus with prominent, broad keels, that has an orange coloration at the base and above the middle.

Keywords: Taxonomy; Vanilla costaricensis; V. methonica; V. mexicana; Vanilla subgenus Vanilla; Monocots


Alexander Damian and Nicole Mitidieri. 2020. Living in the Clouds: A New High-elevation Species of Vanilla (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae) from Perú. Phytotaxa. 451(2); 154–160. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.451.2.5