identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
627787839C057663FF0A86D6553F039F.text	627787839C057663FF0A86D6553F039F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Vanilla javieri Barona-Colmenares. A. Dissected 2018	<div><p>Vanilla javieri Barona-Colmenares, sp. nov. (Figs. 2, 3, 5 &amp; Table 1)</p> <p>Diagnosis: —The new species resembles V. appendiculata; however, vines seem to be smaller and bear racemes with fewer, completely greenish cream-colored flowers. More importantly, the inner surface of the claw is lanuginose (vs. warty), the lip apex is adorned by fewer and smaller papillae, and the fruits are pendant (vs. erect). Vanilla javieri is easily distinguished by the following combination of characters within the V. planifolia group: small understory hemiepiphyte vine bearing oblong-elliptic and abruptly mucronate coriaceous leaves; terminal inflorescences with a basal, sub-cordate, non-floriferous foliaceous bract; small, greenish cream-colored flowers bearing a column with a glabrous ventral surface; a narrow, acute, strongly reflexed lip apex with two rows of digitiform papillae forming a V-shape along the margins of an inconspicuous cushion-like apical longitudinal crest; and pendant, arcuate, rather stout, obscurely calyculate fruits that are highly aromatic when dehiscing.</p> <p>Type: — COLOMBIA, Departamento de Amazonas: Leticia, secondary forest on the road from Leticia to Tarapacá, 4° 03’ S, 69° 59’ W, 100 m elev., 19 May 2017, fl. &amp; fr., A.A. Barona-Colmenares &amp; L. Pinedo 4666 (holotype COAH!).</p> <p>Small, hemiepiphyte understory vine, ca. 1.2 m high. Stems 4–5 mm in diameter, dark green towards the base, fading to bright green towards the apex, cylindrical, smooth, flexuous, sinuous to zigzagging; internodes 30–54 mm long. Leaves 113–148 × 37–49 mm, alternate, oblong-elliptic, fleshy, coriaceous, shiny deep emerald green in color and with a conspicuous canaliculate petiole 3–12 mm long × 3–9 mm wide; blade longer than the internodes and bearing a conspicuous whitish collecting vein along the margins, widest at three quarters from the base and abruptly mucronate near the acute and recurved apex. Inflorescence terminal, racemose, with 6–20 successive flowers, generally one or occasionally two open at once; scape 30–80 mm long, green, erect, slightly sinuous, stouter than stem; floral bracts 4–6 mm long × 4–6 mm wide, small, triangular-ovate, coriaceous, canaliculate, patent, same green as scape with whitish margins; basal floral bracts distichous, up to 4 non-floriferous; the basal bract 9–11 mm long × 6–7 mm wide, foliaceous, green, subcordate with conspicuous longitudinal veins converging at apex; the remaining apical bracts floriferous and arranged spirally. Flowers resupinate, small, 3–5 cm in diameter, with partially spreading segments, completely greenish cream-colored and with a weak citrus odor. Ovary 32–35 mm long × 4–5 mm in diameter, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, white fading to green towards the apex, obscurely calyculate, with the calyculus margin broadly undulate. Sepals free, oblanceolate, narrow, cream-colored, merged at base with column for 9–10 mm, abaxially greenish cream-colored with the apex tinged with green, concave, margin involute, apex acute and with conspicuous crystal druses; dorsal sepal 91 × 12 mm, symmetric, smooth, concave with involute margins and ca. 13 veins; lateral sepals 84.5–86 × 12–13 mm, asymmetric, smooth, concave with involute margins and ca. 14 veins. Petals 86–89 × 11–12 mm, cream-colored, greenish cream-colored abaxially, merged at base with column for ca. 9–10 mm, narrow lanceolate, asymmetric, basally concave and convex towards the apex, with an externally prominent central rib, ca. 13 yellowish cream-colored veins, slightly rounded apex and conspicuous crystal druses. Labellum long unguiculate, inner surface of the claw lanuginose; labellum blade 42 × 31 mm when spread out, oval-shaped, with ca. 28 yellowish veins, cream-colored, obscurely trilobed, concave, with a conspicuous ventral groove and throat lined with yellow laterally; lateral lobes cream-colored, rounded, with ca. 12 yellowish cream-colored veins and forming a crest-like process at the column apex; lateral lobe margins entire, very slightly undulate, united to the column for 3/4 of its length (ca. 58 mm); apical lobe slightly rounded, ending in an acute, reflexed apex with an inconspicuous apical triangular cushion starting at 9 mm from the lip apex adorned with two lateral rows of digitiform papillae, each row with 8–12 papillae, and occasionally a third central row present with 3–4 papillae, lip apex tinged with green abaxially; apical lobe margin slightly undulate. Penicillate callus 4.5 mm long × 3 mm wide, well-defined at 22 mm from the apex, yellowish cream-colored, made up by 7 rows of flattened laciniae united to each other on the lateral margins, with the last row made up of multiple lines of grouped laciniae, forming a tuft. Column 62–67 mm long × 2–3 mm in diameter, merged at base with sepals and petals for 9–10 mm, cream-colored, slightly sinuous, thicker towards the apex and united to the labellum margins for the whole of its length (ca. 58 mm) and with a smooth ventral surface. Stigma 1 mm long × 2 mm wide, bilobed, each lobe quadrate-rectangular shaped, with digitiform lateral wings. Rostellum 3 mm long × 4 mm wide, yellowish cream-colored, convex and quadrate with rounded ends. Anther 5 mm long × 3 mm wide, versatile, saddle-shaped, yellowish cream-colored, with yellowish pollen grains aggregated in monads. Fruits 100–125 mm long × 9–13 mm in diameter, green, pendant, cylindrical, basally arcuate, appearance stout and rather short with a rounded and obscure calyculus when fully developed, dehiscent along two sutures, releasing a clear, brownish mucilaginous substance when dehiscing and strongly aromatic.</p> <p>Etymology: — Vanilla javieri is dedicated to local Amazonian Vanilla co-researcher Javier Pineda Ferreira, who located the only known individual and passed away shortly after. The epithet is permitted by article 23 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, and follows recommendations 23A.1, 60.8.(a) and 60C.1.a (McNeill et al. 2012).</p> <p>Distribution and habitat: — Vanilla javieri is only known from the type specimen. It was found growing in the understory of a 20–30 year old secondary growth forest near the road margin. The area where it occurs has been transformed since the construction of the road from Leticia to Tarapacá in the mid-1970´s. This area currently exhibits a matrix of rural settlements, agricultural crops and pastures for cattle ranching, as well as secondary growth forest and original forest cover.</p> <p>Phenology: —The only known individual of this species has been observed in flower in January, April, May and September. The development of the inflorescence takes approximately 30 days before flower anthesis initiates. Flowers are ephemeral and abscise the next day if not effectively pollinated. Immature fruits become pendant as soon as pollination occurs. Fruit sets are generally low and only two natural pollination events have been observed from at least 50 flowers. Development of the fruit takes ca. 90 days before dehiscence occurs.</p> <p>Conservation: —The new species is only represented by the type individual found in an area with high anthropogenic activities. This species is part of the group bearing aromatic fruits and is therefore an important wild relative of the widely cultivated V. planifolia. As a result, this species could be potentially sought-after by vanilla growers. Due to the aforementioned characteristics, along with its apparent rarity and narrow distribution in an area with high anthropogenic activities, it would be reasonable to include this species in the Critically Endangered (CR) category based on IUCN criteria [CR: A3c; B1ab (i,ii,iii,iv)].</p> <p>Comments: —Among the species in the Vanilla planifolia group, it shares the small understory vine habit with V. appendiculata, V. cristagalli and V. ribeiroi. Additionally, the shape and size of the perianth segments in dissected flowers is very similar to V. appendiculata. Furthermore, V. javieri exhibits a column with a glabrous ventral surface, a trait found exclusively in V. appendiculata, V. capixaba and V. labelopapillata, within the V. planifolia group (Flanagan et al. 2018). The combination of exclusively shared characteristics within the group suggests that its closest relatives are V. appendiculata and V. cristagalli. According to Fraga et al. (2017), V. cristagalli is a common species in the upper Solimoes river area (adjacent to the study area presented in this paper); however, it exhibits notable differences when contrasted against V. javieri. A comparison of notable characteristics among closely related species is presented in Table 1.</p> <p>Some of the most distinctive characteristics of V. javieri when compared with other closely related members of its group are as follows. Vanilla appendiculata exhibits white flowers with yellow, papillose-barbellate lip ornamentation, described by Rolfe (1896) as “foliaceous appendages”. Vanilla appendiculata is easily distinguished among members of the Vanilla planifolia group because it is the only species that exhibits erect fruits. In detail, it differs from V. javieri in the conspicuous rows of warty papillae connecting the apical callus to the penicillate callus (vs. absent), the conspicuous warty texture of the inner surface of the claw (vs. lanuginose texture), the number of rows, size and shape of the laciniae of the penicillate callus, the shape of the papillae and the ornamentation pattern of the lip apex (Fig. 4).</p> <p>When compared with V. javieri, V. cristagalli bears leaves that are widest at half the blade length (vs. ¾ from the base in V. javieri), larger and more congested floral bracts, more flowers per inflorescence (up to 40 vs. up to 20), the inner surface of the claw is warty (vs. lanuginose), the ventral surface of the column is covered by puberullent papillae (vs. completely glabrous), the penicillate callus is connected to the apical callus by 5 to 7 rows of tuberculate papillae (vs. absent) and it exhibits an emarginated (vs. slightly undulate) midlobe to the lip (RB 14512, RB 504109, Fraga et al. 2017). Householder et al. (2010) report the formation of mucilaginous substance between the splitting valves of dehiscing fruits, a trait that is also observed in V. javieri; however, the fruits in V. cristagalli seem to occupy a terminal position. According to Soto-Arenas &amp; Cribb (2010), V. cristato-callosa is synonymous with V. cristagalli, with the main difference in flower size. Furthermore, it differs from V. javieri in exhibiting oblanceolate leaves with longer petioles, more congested floral bracts, wider sepals and petals, notched lip apex and a shorter column (RB 37468).</p> <p>Vanilla denshikoira is closely related to V. cristagalli; however, it differs from V. javieri in the numerous elongated trichomes that adorn the lip apex (Flanagan et al. 2018). Vanilla dubia is closely related to V. appendiculata and V. cristagalli, but it is easily distinguished by exhibiting oblanceolate leaves, an emarginated midlobe of the lip and thicker and shorter fruits when compared to the new species (RB 37014, Fraga et al. 2017). Vanilla schwackeana is a poorly known species that is also thought to be closely related to V. cristagalli, but with the lip ornamentation reduced to warty papillae (Soto Arenas &amp; Cribb 2010). Additionally, it exhibits leaves with a long, acuminate apex and fruits that are longer and less stout than in V. javieri (RB 87015). Vanilla dungsii occurs exclusively in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and exhibits narrow-lanceolate leaves with a long-acuminate apex, internodes up to 16-18 cm, notched midlobe of the lip and rows of papillae connecting the lip apex with the penicillate callus (HB 59052, Fraga et al. 2017). Vanilla capixaba shares the glabrous ventral surface of the column with V. javieri; however, it exhibits white flowers with a densely barbellate lip apex (Fraga et al. 2017). Vanilla paulista exhibits a deeply emarginate midlobe to the lip and a column with a lanuginose ventral surface (Fraga et al. 2017).</p> <p>The remaining species in the V. planifolia group are not included in Table 1 due to their geographic distribution and distinctiveness from V. javieri. In this sense, Vanilla aspericaulis exhibits flowers with more papillae and a lanuginose ventral surface of the column (Sambin &amp; Chiron 2017). Vanilla bahiana is reported to occur exclusively in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and exhibits short xerophytic leaves, stout stems and large, greenish-yellow flowers (Soto Arenas &amp; Cribb 2010). Vanilla fimbriata and V. odorata are very closely related to each other and both exhibit oblanceolate leaves and fimbriate lip margins (Soto Arenas &amp; Cribb 2010). Vanilla helleri has abundant wax on the stem apices and whitish flowers with a bright yellow lip adorned with orange appendages on the midlobe (Soto Arenas &amp; Dressler 2010). Vanilla inornata exhibits lanceolate leaves and lacks papillae on the labellum (Sambin &amp; Chiron 2017). Vanilla insignis is one of the largest members in the Orchidaceae family, with vigorous vines reaching up to 100 meters in length, flowers with apple-green tepals and dense, yellow-orange papillae covering the lip apex (Soto Arenas &amp; Dressler 2010). Vanilla labelopapillata exhibits linear-lanceolate leaves and a lip with fimbriate margins that is completely covered by seven rows of tuberculate yellow-orange papillae (Koch et al. 2013). Vanilla phaeantha is common in the West Indies and has small xerophytic leaves and large flowers with a white lip adorned by yellow stripes (Soto Arenas &amp; Dressler 2010). Vanilla planifolia does not occur naturally in South America and the ornamentation of the lip is reduced to numerous warty appendages (Soto Arenas &amp; Cribb 2010). Vanilla ribeiroi presents reduced and xerophytic leaves, small greenish sepals and petals, concave column with a hirsute ventral surface and the distal half of the lip is completely covered by yellowish trichomes (Householder et al. 2010). Finally, V. sotoarenasii exhibits warty appendages on the lip apex (Azofeifa-Bolaños et. al. 2017).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/627787839C057663FF0A86D6553F039F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Barona-Colmenares, Andrés A.	Barona-Colmenares, Andrés A. (2018): Two new records in Orchidaceae (Vanillinae) from southernmost Colombian Amazonia: Vanilla javieri, a new species, and Vanilla appendiculata. Phytotaxa 375 (4): 261-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.375.4.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.375.4.2
627787839C0F766EFF0A86BC541D026E.text	627787839C0F766EFF0A86BC541D026E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Vanilla appendiculata Rolfe. A. Flower 1895	<div><p>Vanilla appendiculata Rolfe (1895:178) (Figs. 4, 5 &amp; Table 1)</p> <p>Hemiepiphyte understory vine, up to 4 m high. Aerial roots 46–111 mm long and 2–3 mm in diameter, greenish-white when young turning greenish-grey when mature, flattened, with a villose ventral surface; stems 4–5 mm in diameter, pale green, cylindrical, smooth, flexuous, thicker towards the nodes; internodes 29–57 mm long. Leaves 140–177 × 42–49 mm, alternate, fleshy, shiny pale green when young, turning to deep emerald green when mature; petiole 1.2–1.3 mm long × 5–6 mm wide, canaliculate; blade longer than the internodes, spatulate with an abruptly mucronate apex. Inflorescence terminal, racemose, with 8–30 successive flowers, with generally one flower open at once; scape 30–80 mm long and 5–7 mm in diameter, pale green, erect, slightly sinuous and stouter than the stem; floral bracts 4–6 mm long × 4–6 mm wide, small, triangular-ovate, coriaceous, canaliculate, patent, pale green with whitish margins, the basal distichous and non-floriferous and the distal floriferous and arranged spirally. Flowers resupinate, medium-sized, 6–8 cm in diameter, with spreading segments, white, pedicellate and scentless. Ovary 25–26 mm long and 3–4 mm in diameter, slightly arcuate towards the base, white fading to green towards the apex, slightly dorsiventrally compressed and obscurely calyculate. Sepals free, oblanceolate, narrow, merged at base with column for ca. 6 mm, white with the apex tinged with green abaxially, concave with involute margins and acute apex; dorsal sepal 78 × 8 mm, white with the apex tinged with green abaxially, symmetric, smooth and with ca. 11 veins; lateral sepals 75 × 11 mm, asymmetric, smooth and with ca. 14 veins. Petals 76-77 × 7-8 mm, merged at base with column for ca. 6 mm, white with the apex tinged with green abaxially, narrow lanceolate, asymmetric, basally concave and convex towards apex, with ca. 15 veins, a conspicuous externally prominent central rib and acute apex. Labellum long unguiculate, inner surface of the claw warty; labellum blade 38 × 29 mm when spread out, oval-shaped, white, concave, obscurely trilobed, mid lobe slightly rounded. Lateral lobes white, very slightly cream-colored, rounded, with ca. 12 yellowish veins; lateral lobe margins entire, very slightly undulate, united to the column along the whole of its length (ca. 54 mm) and forming a flattened process at the column apex. Apical lobe narrow, acute-triangular, deeply recurved lip apex adorned with yellowish, flattened, foliaceous appendages covering most of the area along an inconspicuous, elevated, cushion-like, triangular apical keel. Penicillate callus 4 mm long × 4 mm wide, well-defined at 22 mm from the apex, yellowish-cream, made up by ca. 7 rows of flattened laciniae; the two most basal rows made up by few, separate, laciniate scales; the rest of the rows with laciniae united to each other on the lateral margins, with the apical row made up of multiple lines of grouped laciniae, forming a tuft. Column 61 mm long × 3 mm in diameter, whitish, merged at base with sepals and petals for ca. 6 mm, thicker towards the apex and slightly sinuous, united to the labellum margins for the whole of its length (ca. 54 mm) and with a smooth ventral surface. Stigma 1 mm long × 2.5 mm wide, bilobed, each lobe rectangular shaped, stigmatic region with digitiform lateral wings. Rostellum 1.5 × 4 mm, convex, yellowish-cream, quadrate, with rounded ends. Anther 4 mm long × 3 mm wide, saddle-shaped, versatile, yellowish-cream, with yellowish pollen grains aggregated in monads. Fruits 120–140 mm long × 12–15 mm in diameter, erect, pale green, cylindrical, basally recurved, swollen towards the apex and obscurely calyculate when fully developed.</p> <p>COLOMBIA, Departamento de Amazonas: Leticia, km 15 on the road from Leticia to Tarapacá, 86 m elev., 4° 06’ S, 69° 59’ W, 10 April 2015, fl. &amp; fr., A.A. Barona-Colmenares &amp; L. Pinedo 3102 (COAH!).</p> <p>Distribution and habitat: — Vanilla appendiculata occurs in Guyana, Surinam, Brazil and Peru, as a small understory hemiepiphyte vine (Soto Arenas and Cribb 2010). This species is reported to occur in the state of Loreto, Peru, and the state of Amazonas, Brazil, adjacent to the Colombian border. Based on the revision of the associated data in herbarium specimens, this species occurs in igapó and várzea floodplain forests, temporally flooded forests along small streams, around Mauritia palm wetlands, as well as in terra firme forests on sandy outcrops.</p> <p>Additional specimens examined: Type: — GUYANA (British Guiana), Corentyne River, fr., October 1879, im Thurn s.n. (holo. K 463748); BRAZIL, Amazonas, road margins Camanaus-Uaupés road near Camanaus. Caatinga on white sand, terra firme, fr., 1 November 1971, Prance, Maas, Woolcott, Monteiro &amp; Ramos 15950 (NY 2695608); idem, Amazonas, Rio Negro, Ilha das Flores, caatinga alta, fl. &amp; fr., 10 November 1953, Rodrigues 100 (IAN 102121); idem, Amazonas, Municipio de São Paulo de Olivença, estrada Bomfim, vegetação tipo campinarana, solo arenoso, fl., 16 March 1981, Monteiro &amp; Lima 133 (INPA 99080); idem, Mato Grosso, Juará, proximidade do <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-57.75083&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-11.083611" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -57.75083/lat -11.083611)">Río Arinos</a> em floresta ombrófila, 11° 05’ 01.0’’ S, 57° 45’ 03.0’’ W, fr., 12 August 2014, Saddi, Samor &amp; Gomes 1007 (RB 612505); idem, Roraima, Caracaraí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-61.0075&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=1.4686111" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -61.0075/lat 1.4686111)">Parque Nacional do Viruá</a>, 1° 28’ 07.0’’ N, 61° 00’ 27.0’’ W, fl. &amp; fr., 17 September 2011, Pessoa, Melo &amp; Vasconselos 639 (INPA 241015); idem, Roraima, Caracaraí, Parque Nacional do Viruá, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-60.850277&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=1.3472222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -60.850277/lat 1.3472222)">Río Barauana</a>, 1° 20’ 50.0’’ N, 60° 51’ 01.0’’ W, fl. &amp; fr., 21 September 2011, Pessoa, Melo &amp; Vasconselos 696 (INPA 241058); idem, Roraima, Caracaraí, Parque Nacional do Viruá, Río Barauana, mata de várzea, fl., 26 July 2010, Pessoa, Delgado Junior, Melo &amp; Cavalcanti 356 (INPA 235120); PERU, Departamento de Loreto, Provincia Maynas, Mishana Río Nanay, fl. &amp; fr., 19 November 1981, Ruiz &amp; Murphy 255 (K).</p> <p>Comments: —In the original description of the type specimen from Guyana, Rolfe (1895: 178) mentions that V. appendiculata is “…remarkable for its narrow sepals and petals, and long narrow lip which terminates in a narrow recurved apex, covered with linear foliaceous appendages. The specimens were gathered in 1879 and both the fruits have opened, yet they retain a distinct aromatic perfume…”. The holotype at Kew exhibits two mature, fully open, calyculate fruits and it is not evident whether they were erect or pendant. Conversely, voucher specimens at RB and INPA herbaria clearly exhibit immature fruits that are erect, basally recurved, cylindrical, swollen towards the apex and calyculate. The associated data on herbarium tags confirms other observed characteristics such as the understory vine habit, white ovaries with a greenish apex, white flowers and lip with yellow appendages. Furthermore, the voucher specimens confirm other diagnostic characteristics such as terminal inflorescences and triangular-ovate, acute, canaliculate, coriaceous, patent bracts. Due to the numerous fruit sets observed, both in situ and in voucher specimens, self-pollination is not improbable.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/627787839C0F766EFF0A86BC541D026E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Barona-Colmenares, Andrés A.	Barona-Colmenares, Andrés A. (2018): Two new records in Orchidaceae (Vanillinae) from southernmost Colombian Amazonia: Vanilla javieri, a new species, and Vanilla appendiculata. Phytotaxa 375 (4): 261-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.375.4.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.375.4.2
