Vanilla barbellata Rchb.f.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Terrestrial and epiphytic vine, 3-5 m long; roots gray, usually 1 or 2 per node, glabrous, 1-3 mm thick when aerial, thicker and villous when in contact with substrate; stems scandent, smooth, occasionally branched, 3-9 mm thick. Leaves early deciduous, to 40 X 8 mm , relatively thin, broad basally, otherwise linearlanceolate, involute and usually reflexed at apex. Flowers in racemes; floral bracts fleshy, broadly ovate, 4-12 mm long. Sepals and petals green, free, somewhat spreading; sepals oblong-oblanceolate, 30-40 x 9-12 mm; petals oblong-oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, slightly falcate, dorsally keeled, 30-40 x 10-13 mm; lip adnate to the lower half of the column, apex trilobed, overall triangular-obovate, medially thickened, the lateral lobes orbicular, involute and arching over the column, sinuses 4-5 mm deep, the middle lobe fleshy and reflexed, the disk with a tuft of rigid, retrorse bristles; column straight, semicylindrical, 2.3-3.3 cm long; pedicellate ovary 3-4.5 cm long. Fruit indehiscent, pendent, fusiform-cylindric, slightly curved, 7-9 cm long, 9-13 mm thick.
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Distribution
Climbing vine in dry to moist scrub forests. Europa Bay (A4142). Also reported from St. Thomas and Virgin Gorda; Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida.
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