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Description

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Lianes bearing aerial or clinging adventitious roots. Leaves present (in ours), fleshy. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, few-many-flowered. Flowers large, white, yellow or green, often marked with purple or yellow on the lip. Sepals and petals similar, free. Lip usually larger than the sepals and petals, adnate to the column and forming a funnel.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Vanilla Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=423
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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