List of Vanilla species

This is a list of accepted species of Vanilla (vanilla orchids), according to the most recent taxonomic research.^[1] However, molecular phylogeny is still needed to support these findings as some morphological variations might be influenced by the local environment.^[2]

Vanilla chamissonis

Vanilla walkeriae

illustration circa 1895
from "Flora Brasiliensis"

(Borneo)
(Gabon)
(W & WC Tropical Africa)
(Indonesia)
Vanilla andamanica (Andaman Islands)
(Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
(S China to Vietnam)
Vanilla aphylla (SE Asia to Java)
(Guyana, Surinam, Brazil, Peru)
Vanilla bahiana (Brazil: Bahia)
(S Florida through Caribbean)
(Paraguay)
(Caribbean to N South America)
(NE India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia:Borneo)
(Brazil: São Paulo)
(Philippines: Luzon)
(Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia)
(Gabon)
Vanilla chamissonis (Brazil)
(Caribbean)
(Colombia)
(Madagascar)
(W & WC Tropical Africa)
(N Brazil)
(Cameroon)
(SW Madagascar)
(Indonesia: Sulawesi)
(S Florida to Caribbean)
(Brazil: Minas Gerais)
(Brazil)
(Brazil to Argentina)
(Brazil, Guyana)
(NE Madagascar)
(Brazil)
(New Guinea)
(Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Peru, Brazil)
(Príncipe to Zaire)
(W Malaysia)
(Guyana, Suriname, Brazil)
(Gabon)
(Peru)
(Mexico to French Guiana & Brazil)
(Borneo)
(Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
(Gabon, Congo)
(Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil)
Vanilla humblotii (Comoros)
(W Tropical Africa to Tanzania and Angola)
(Mexico and Central America)
(Mexico and Central America)
(New Guinea)
(New Guinea)
(Peninsular Malaysia to Borneo)
(N & NW Madagascar)
(Colombia, Peru)
(S Florida, Mexico to Venezuela)
(Malaysia)
Vanilla moonii (Sri Lanka)
(S Nigeria to Cameroon)
(Cameroon)
(S Mexico to tropical South America)
(Brazil: Rio de Janeiro)
(Ecuador)
(Philippines)
(Venezuela & Guyana)
(Sumatra)
(Amazon Basin)
(S Brazil to Paraguay)
(Venezuela, Brazil)
(NW Madagascar)
Vanilla phaeantha (S Florida, Caribbean, Mexico, Venezuela)
(Seychelles)
Vanilla planifolia (Mexico & Central America, widely cultivated)
(Indonesia: Sulawesi)
(Caribbean)
Vanilla polylepis (Kenya to S tropical Africa)
Vanilla pompona (Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, W Colombia, Ecuador)
(New Guinea)
(Ghana to Tanzania)
(Brazil, Guyana, Colombia)
Vanilla roscheri (Ethiopia to NE KwaZulu-Natal)
(Peru, Bolivia)
(Cuba)
(Brazil: Minas Gerais)
(Indonesia: Seram)
(WC tropical Africa)
Vanilla siamensis (S Yunnan to Thailand)
Vanilla somae (China to Taiwan)
(Colombia)
(Sumatra)
Vanilla tahitensis (South Pacific)
(Costa Rica to N Brazil)
(S New Guinea)
Vanilla vellozii (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
(Argentina)
Vanilla walkeriae (S India, Sri Lanka)
(New Guinea)
(S India, Sri Lanka)
(Thailand, Vietnam)
(E Africa)

References[]

^ Soto Arenas, M.; Cribb, P. (2010). "A new infrageneric classification and synopsis of the Genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill.(Orchidaceae: Vanillinae)" (PDF). Lankesteriana. 9 (3): 355–398.
^ Odoux, Eric; Grisoni, Michel (2010). Vanilla. CRC Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9781420083385.

External links[]

U.S. Plants Database

[1] Soto Arenas, M.; Cribb, P. (2010). "A new infrageneric classification and synopsis of the Genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill.(Orchidaceae: Vanillinae)" (PDF). Lankesteriana. 9 (3): 355–398.

[2] Odoux, Eric; Grisoni, Michel (2010). Vanilla. CRC Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9781420083385.

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