Disa subtenuicornis H.P.Linder 1981SECTION Disella Lindl.

Plant and Flowers in situ

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

Full sun Cold LATE Spring

Common Name The Less than Delicate Horned Disa

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Cape Province South Africa in damp peaty soils on mountains in full sun at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, linear, erect leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, cylindrical to 10" [ to 25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence,

Synonyms

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

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