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