Disa oligantha Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Disa Drawing by © Bolus and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Sun Cold LATE Spring EARLYSummer

Common Name or Meaning Sparsely Blooming Disa

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in southwestern Cape Province South Africa at elevations around 950 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a slender stem carrying the cauline, subimbricate, sheathing stem, apices free, narrowly lanceolate to linear, grading above into the 6 radical narrowly oblanceolate, apiculate leaves above that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, corymbose, to 10 flowered inflorescence with slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, unscented flowers

Synonyms Disa parvilabris Bolus 1882; Orthopenthea triloba (Sond.) Rolfe 1912; Penthea triloba Sond. 1846;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photos fide;

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