*Vanilla planifolia G. Jackson. Common name: Vanilla, Commercial Vanilla. Phenology: Apr. Habitat: Tropical hardwood hammocks, cypress swamps. Distribution: Native of West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Possibly a pre-Columbian introduction.
Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics
Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA26, K4, NS, POWO, S13, WH3, WI, Luer (1972); ? Vanilla vanilla (L.) H.Karst. — S, misapplied. Basionym: Vanilla planifolia Jacks. 1808
Links to other floras: = Vanilla planifolia - FNA26
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Heliophily ⓘ: 2
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