Mycoheterotrophic Plants

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Pseudovanilla anomala (Ames & L.O.Williams) Garay 1986

The status of the genus Pseudovanilla as holomycotrophic remains to be determined because they all are yellowish-orange when young but turn green at maturity (Merckx 2013). The only species in this genus which often are shown with green leathery leaves is P. anomala (GBiF 2021). We, hence, decided to exclude it from the list of mycoheterotrophic plants. We herein follow WCSP and POWO, which do not explicitly name it as holomycotrophic (but do so for their congeners).
Pseudovanilla anomala was first described by Ames & Williams in Williams (1938) as Vanilla anomala (p. 108) from Fiji, Naitisiri Province. The transfer to Pseudovanilla was proposed by Garay (1986).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith