Disa bodkinii Bolus 1885 SECTION Disa

Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name Bodkin's Disa

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southwestern and southern Cape Province South Africa in slightly damp areas after fires in montane grasslands in full sun at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, erect leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, corymbose, to 10" [25 cm] long, 1 to 15 flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Orthopenthea bodkinii (Bolus) Rolfe 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006