Check List 13(6): 1131-1137, doi: 10.15560/13.6.1131
Vanilla bahiana Hoehne and Vanilla pompona Schiede (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae): two new records from Maranhão state, Brazil
expand article infoAlessandro Wagner Coelho Ferreira‡, Miguel Sena de Oliveira§, Eduardo Oliveira Silva|, Diego Sousa Campos, Emerson Ricardo Pansarin#, Elidio Armando Exposto Guarçoni|
‡ Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil§ Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Caxias, Brazil| Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Codó, Brazil¶ Federal University of Maranhão, Codó, Brazil# Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Corresponding author: Alessandro Wagner Coelho Ferreira ( alessandrowcf@yahoo.com.br )

Academic editor: Rosa del Carmen Ortiz-Gentry
© 2017 Alessandro Wagner Coelho Ferreira, Miguel Sena de Oliveira, Eduardo Oliveira Silva, Diego Sousa Campos, Emerson Ricardo Pansarin, Elidio Armando Exposto Guarçoni.
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Citation: Ferreira AWC, Oliveira MS de, Silva EO, Campos DS, Pansarin ER, Guarçoni EAE (2017) Vanilla bahiana Hoehne and Vanilla pompona Schiede (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae): two new records from Maranhão state, Brazil. Check List 13(6): 1131-1137. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1131
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Abstract
We present here the first records of Vanilla bahiana and Vanilla pompona from Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil. Both species were collected in a gallery forest, in areas of Cerrado vegetation at Caxias municipality. This work contributes with knowledge on the geographical distribution of the species in northeastern Brazil.
Keywords
Cerrado vegetation; Neotropics; orchids