Plant Details

Accepted name:: Vanilla × tahitensis J.W.Moore [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
tahitian vanilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
tahitivanille	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vanilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
vanille de tahiti	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	cured, full-grown, unripe fruit	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
fruit	cured, full-grown, unripe fruit	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
fruit	fruit	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
fruit	cured, full-grown, unripe fruit	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Vanilla × hirsuta M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones Lasianthera 1: 47 (1996).
Vanilla × tahitensis var. haapape Portères Bull. Soc. Bot. France 98: 127 (1951), nom. nud.
Vanilla × tahitensis var. potiti Portères Bull. Soc. Bot. France 98: 127 (1951), nom. nud.
Vanilla × tahitensis var. tiarei (Costantin & Bois) Portères Bull. Soc. Bot. France 98: 126 (1951), not validly publ.
Vanilla × tiarei Costantin & Bois Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 161: 202 (1915), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Vanilla tahitensis	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Vanilla tahitensis J. W. Moore	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)
Vanilla tahitensis J.W. Moore	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
Vanilla tahitensis J.W.Moore	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Vanilla tahitensis Moore	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Vanilla x tahitensis J.W.Moore	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)

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