Disa barbata (L.f.) Sw. 1800 SECTION Trichochila Type for section

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Common Name The Bearded Disa

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in southwestern Cape Province South Africa in marshy areas on sandflats in full sun at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid pseudobulbs that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, to 20" [50 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Herschelia barbata (L.f.) Bolus 1882; Herschelianthe barbata (L.f.) Rauschert 1983; *Orchis barbata L.f. 1782; Satyrium barbatum (L.f.) Thunb. 1794

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Herschelia barbata photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #3 2014 photo fide;

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