Vanilla parvifolia Barb. Rodr.

21. Vanilla parvifolia Barb. Rodr. View in CoL ( Barbosa-Rodrigues 1881: 271)

Fig. 3 C View Figure 3

Type.

BRAZIL – Parana • Curitiba; J. Barbosa Rodrigues s. n; holotype: †; lectotype (designated here): Barbosa Rodrigues’s original illustration at Biblioteca Barbosa Rodrigues, “ Iconographie des Orchidées du Brésil ” 1: tab. 49, cited as tab. 767 (then unpublished) in Barbosa-Rodrigues (1881: 271); copied and reproduced in black and white in Cogniaux (1893: t. 33); reproduced in colour in Sprunger et al. (1996: t. 49).

Notes.

It is believed that Barbosa’s herbarium was destroyed during a tropical deluge ( Castro and Singer 2018). However, Barbosa made several illustrations of his species ( Mori and Ferreira 1987). We have designated the unpublished illustration made for Vanilla parvifolia as the lectotype, which was later reproduced by Cogniaux (1893) and published in Sprunger et al. (1996).