Vanilla bertoniensis Bertoni

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

7. Vanilla bertoniensis Bertoni ( Bertoni 1910: 10)

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Type.

PARAGUAY – Alto Paraná • Puerto Bertoni ; Bertoni 6039; holotype: SCP! [ SCPD 00036 ]; clonotype: SCP! [ SCPD 00041 ] .

Notes.

In the introduction of the paper in which Bertoni published this species, he explicitly stated that he was working on materials from his own herbarium ( Bertoni 1910). Although two specimens with the number Bertoni 6039 are deposited at SCP, one was prepared after the formal description of V. bertoniensis (3 Jan. 1911) and therefore cannot be the holotype. Therefore, a single specimen matching the protologue was located, and we find this sufficient to unambiguously determine it as the holotype.

Figures

Figure 1. Type specimens of membranaceous Vanilla. A. Lectotype designated for Vanilla acuta [K]. B. Epitype designated for Vanilla acuta (Illustration by Robert H. Schomburgk: plate 216–267, BM). C. Lectotype designated for Vanilla angustipetala [R 00024938]. D. Holotype of Vanilla arcuata [LBMBP 147]. E. Lectotype designated for Vanilla bradei [HB 8087]. F. Holotype of Vanilla bertoniensis [SCPD 00036]. G. Holotype of Vanilla costaricensis [CR 062310]. H. Holotype of Vanilla dietschiana [SP 000109]. Photos by Alexander Damián-Parizaca (A), Emerson Pansarin (D), and courtesy of Library and Archive collections of the Natural History Museum, London (B), Herbário do Museu Nacional, R (C), Herbarium Bradeanum, HB (E), Sociedad Cientifica del Paraguay (F), Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (G), Herbario Instituto de Botanica, SP (H).