This is a list of accepted species of Vanilla (vanilla orchids), according to the most recent taxonomic research. [1] However, molecular phylogeny is still needed to support these findings as some morphological variations might be influenced by the local environment. [2]
illustration circa 1895
from "Flora Brasiliensis"
- Vanilla abundiflora (Borneo)
- Vanilla acuminata (Gabon)
- Vanilla africana (W & WC Tropical Africa)
- Vanilla albida (Indonesia)
- Vanilla andamanica (Andaman Islands)
- Vanilla angustipetala (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
- Vanilla annamica (S China to Vietnam)
- Vanilla aphylla (SE Asia to Java)
- Vanilla appendiculata (Guyana, Surinam, Brazil, Peru)
- Vanilla bahiana (Brazil: Bahia)
- Vanilla barbellata (S Florida through Caribbean)
- Vanilla bertoniensis (Paraguay)
- Vanilla bicolor (Caribbean to N South America)
- Vanilla borneensis (NE India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia:Borneo)
- Vanilla bradei (Brazil: São Paulo)
- Vanilla calopogon (Philippines: Luzon)
- Vanilla calyculata (Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia)
- Vanilla chalottii (Gabon)
- Vanilla chamissonis (Brazil)
- Vanilla claviculata (Caribbean)
- Vanilla columbiana (Colombia)
- Vanilla coursii (Madagascar)
- Vanilla crenulata (W & WC Tropical Africa)
- Vanilla cristagalli (N Brazil)
- Vanilla cucullata (Cameroon)
- Vanilla decaryana (SW Madagascar)
- Vanilla diabolica (Indonesia: Sulawesi)
- Vanilla dilloniana (S Florida to Caribbean)
- Vanilla dubia (Brazil: Minas Gerais)
- Vanilla dungsii (Brazil)
- Vanilla edwallii (Brazil to Argentina)
- Vanilla fimbriata (Brazil, Guyana)
- Vanilla francoisii (NE Madagascar)
- Vanilla gardneri (Brazil)
- Vanilla giulianettii (New Guinea)
- Vanilla grandiflora (Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Peru, Brazil)
- Vanilla grandifolia (Príncipe to Zaire)
- Vanilla griffithii (W Malaysia)
- Vanilla guianensis (Guyana, Suriname, Brazil)
- Vanilla hallei (Gabon)
- Vanilla hamata (Peru)
- Vanilla hartii (Mexico to French Guiana & Brazil)
- Vanilla havilandii (Borneo)
- Vanilla helleri (Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
- Vanilla heterolopha (Gabon, Congo)
- Vanilla hostmannii (Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil)
- Vanilla humblotii (Comoros)
- Vanilla imperialis (W Tropical Africa to Tanzania and Angola)
- Vanilla inodora (Mexico and Central America)
- Vanilla insignis (Mexico and Central America)
- Vanilla kaniensis (New Guinea)
- Vanilla kempteriana (New Guinea)
- Vanilla kinabaluensis (Peninsular Malaysia to Borneo)
- Vanilla madagascariensis (N & NW Madagascar)
- Vanilla methonica (Colombia, Peru)
- Vanilla mexicana (S Florida, Mexico to Venezuela)
- Vanilla montana (Malaysia)
- Vanilla moonii (Sri Lanka)
- Vanilla nigerica (S Nigeria to Cameroon)
- Vanilla ochyrae (Cameroon)
- Vanilla odorata (S Mexico to tropical South America)
- Vanilla organensis (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro)
- Vanilla oroana (Ecuador)
- Vanilla ovalis (Philippines)
- Vanilla ovata (Venezuela & Guyana)
- Vanilla palembanica (Sumatra)
- Vanilla palmarum (Amazon Basin)
- Vanilla parvifolia (S Brazil to Paraguay)
- Vanilla penicillata (Venezuela, Brazil)
- Vanilla perrieri (NW Madagascar)
- Vanilla phaeantha (S Florida, Caribbean, Mexico, Venezuela)
- Vanilla phalaenopsis (Seychelles)
- Vanilla planifolia (Mexico & Central America, widely cultivated)
- Vanilla platyphylla (Indonesia: Sulawesi)
- Vanilla poitaei (Caribbean)
- Vanilla polylepis (Kenya to S tropical Africa)
- Vanilla pompona (Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, W Colombia, Ecuador)
- Vanilla ramificans (New Guinea)
- Vanilla ramosa (Ghana to Tanzania)
- Vanilla ribeiroi (Brazil, Guyana, Colombia)
- Vanilla roscheri (Ethiopia to NE KwaZulu-Natal)
- Vanilla ruiziana (Peru, Bolivia)
- Vanilla savannarum (Cuba)
- Vanilla schwackeana (Brazil: Minas Gerais)
- Vanilla seranica (Indonesia: Seram)
- Vanilla seretii (WC tropical Africa)
- Vanilla siamensis (S Yunnan to Thailand)
- Vanilla somae (China to Taiwan)
- Vanilla sprucei (Colombia)
- Vanilla sumatrana (Sumatra)
- Vanilla trigonocarpa (Costa Rica to N Brazil)
- Vanilla utteridgei (S New Guinea)
- Vanilla vellozii (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
- Vanilla verrucosa (Argentina)
- Vanilla walkeriae (S India, Sri Lanka)
- Vanilla wariensis (New Guinea)
- Vanilla wightii (S India, Sri Lanka)
- Vanilla yersiniana (Thailand, Vietnam)
- Vanilla zanzibarica (E Africa)
- Vanilla × tahitensis (South Pacific)
