Disperis togoensis Schltr. 1905 Photo by © Maxime Seleck and The Copperflora Website

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Common Name The Togo Disperis

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Found in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaire, Uganda Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique at elevations of 900 to 1050 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with densely hairy, elongate-ovoid to ellipsoidal tubers giving rise to 1 to 3, alternate, sessile, ovate to almost round, obtuse to acute, cordate, crimson-purple beneath, white venation leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, ovate to ovate-lanceolate,obtuse to acute bracts

Synonyms Disperis atacorensis A.Chev. 1920; Disperis cardiopetala Summerh. 1935; Disperis cordata Summerh.1933;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Dryopeia discolor drawing fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968 drawing ok; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide

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