Vanilla shenzhenica

Vanilla shenzhenica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Vanilloideae
Genus:	Vanilla
Species:	V. shenzhenica
Binomial name
	Vanilla shenzhenica; Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen

Vanilla shenzhenica^[1] is a species of Vanilla native to Guangdong (Shenzhen and Huizhou) and Hong Kong in China.^[2]

It used to be treated as a synonym of Vanilla somae,^[3] but it differs from the latter by having the flower not fully opening, with sepals/petals wider than 1.6 cm (up to 1 cm in V. somae) and a distinctly undulate purple-red lip (more or less flat-margined and pinkish yellow-green in V. somae) whose apical appendages are conical (clavate in V. somae).^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Vanilla shenzhenica Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
^ ^a ^b Gale, Stephan W.; Yeung, Wing Kai; Ho, Nick; Chan, Chun Sang; Kumar, Pankaj (2020-12-01). "Four new additions and a taxonomic amendment to the orchid flora of Hong Kong". Taiwania. 65 (4): 575‒587. doi:10.6165/tai.2020.65.575.
^ "Vanilla shenzhenica Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen". The Plant List. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2021-03-12.

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[1] "Vanilla shenzhenica Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2021-03-12.

[:0-2] Gale, Stephan W.; Yeung, Wing Kai; Ho, Nick; Chan, Chun Sang; Kumar, Pankaj (2020-12-01). "Four new additions and a taxonomic amendment to the orchid flora of Hong Kong". Taiwania. 65 (4): 575‒587. doi:10.6165/tai.2020.65.575.

[3] "Vanilla shenzhenica Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen". The Plant List. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2021-03-12.

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