“…Recent concerns regarding the narrow genetic diversity of Vanilla species have led to the mapping of natural populations and determination of conservation priorities (Bory et al, 2008;Andriamihaja et al, 2020;Chambers et al, 2021). These studies have provided a better understanding of the alpha taxonomy (Karremans et al, 2020;Chiron et al, 2021), pollination strategies and mechanisms (Pansarin, 2022;Watteyn et al, 2023), seed dispersal systems (Pansarin, 2021;Pansarin and Suetsugu, 2022), spatial distribution patterns of populations (Barberena et al, 2021), and they have expanded our knowledge of the geographic range size of many species (e.g., Krahl et al, 2020;Engels and Koch, 2021) and yielded the description of new ones (e.g., Damian and Mitidieri, 2020;Damian et al, 2022).…”