Family: Orchidaceae
Group: Monocot
Native Range:
The West Indies and South Florida.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
A false record (
Gann 2015: 125). Carlyle Luer (1972), in his
The Native Orchids of Florida, mapped
Vanilla phaeantha for the Bahamas in error, and the Bahamas was also erroneously included in its range in the Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies (Acevedo-RodrÃguez and Strong 2012). Both were due to a listing of
Vanilla phaeantha by Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Subsequently, the Bahamas plants were described as a new species (
Vanilla correllii Sauleda & R.M. Adams), which was later placed into synonymy under
Vanilla poitaei. This was also described as doubtfully in the Bahamas by Correll & Corell (1982).
