''Vanilla shenzhenica'' is a species of ''
Vanilla'' native to
Guangdong (
Shenzhen and
Huizhou) and
Hong Kong in
China
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It used to be treated as a synonym of ''
Vanilla somae'',
but it differs from the latter by having the flower not fully opening, with sepals/petals wider than 1.6 cm (up to 1 cm in ''V. somae'') and a distinctly undulate purple-red lip (more or less flat-margined and pinkish yellow-green in ''V. somae'') whose apical appendages are conical (clavate in ''V. somae'').
References
shenzhenica
Flora of China
Flora of Hong Kong
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