Vanilla wightii Lindl. ex Wight (1845:931)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Vanilla wightiana Lindl. in Wight [used by Rao & Sudhakar, 1984:197]; Vanilla wightiana Lindl. [used by Rao et al., 1994]; Vanilla wightiana Lindl. ex Hook.f. [used by Rao et al., 2003:126]
Conservation Status
Last record: 1928 or before
Rediscovered after c.30 years (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:282)
Distribution
Eastern Ghats, India
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [696].
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1987, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 1. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. xiii + 367 pp, 16 pls, figs. [pp. 282-284]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Rao, Rolla S. and Sudhakar, S. (1984). Vanilla wightiana Lindl. (Orchidaceae) — a new record for the Eastern GhatsVanilla wightiana Lindl. (Orchidaceae) – a new record for the Eastern Ghats. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 26(3-4): 197-200.
Rao, Y. S., Kuruvilla, K. M. and Madhusoodanan, K. J. (1994). Collection of Vanilla wightiana Lindl. — an endangered wild species from Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh. Indian J. Pl. Genet. Resources 7(2): 257-259.
Soto Arenas, M. A. and Cribb, P. (2010). A new infrageneric classification and synopsis of the genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill. (Orchidaceae: Vanillinae). Lankesteriana 9: 355-398.