Vanilla pfaviana Rchb. f.

Damián-Parizaca, Alexander, Karremans, Adam P., Mitidieri-Rivera-Rivera, Nicole & Cameron, Kenneth M., 2025, Towards a monograph of membranaceous Vanillas: a nomenclatural revision of Vanilla subgen. Vanilla (Vanilloideae, Orchidaceae), Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1), pp. 111-121 : 111-121

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.140667

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15142813

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C36B88A-6245-506D-BEF7-DAEA93909E9A

treatment provided by

by Pensoft

scientific name

Vanilla pfaviana Rchb. f.
status

 

23. Vanilla pfaviana Rchb. f. View in CoL ( Reichenbach 1883: 230)

Type.

COSTA RICA • “ Mexico ”; R. Pfau 269; holotype: W!, AMES! [00090736] sketch, K! [ K 001784688 ] photograph .

Notes.

The paper in which Reichenbach published this species explicitly states he is basing it solely on a sketch received from Pfau ( Reichenbach 1883). There is a single sketch in his herbarium matching the protologue, and it is determined as ‘ Pfaviana’ in the author’s own handwriting. We find this sufficient to unambiguously determine it as the holotype.

W

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

AMES

Harvard University - Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Vanilla