Disa similis Summerh. 1964 SECTION Aconitoideae Kraenzl. Photo by © Martin Rautenbach and The Ispot Soutern Africa Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Similar Disa

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in Angola, Zambia and Natal South Africa in wet dambos at elevations around 1400 meters as a small to medium sized warm to cool growing terrestrial with a slender stem carrying 3 to 8, lax to imbricate, lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, [7 to 18 cm] long, lax, 10 to 30 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide;

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