Disa bracteata Sw. 1800 SECTION Monadenia

Plant and Flower in situ South Africa

Another Plant and Flower in situ South Africa Photos by © Tyrone Genade

Common Name The Bracted Disa - In South Africa - Orgidekie - In Australia The South African Orchid

Flower Size 1/3" [8 mm]

Found in southernmost South Africa in Cape Province in areas of mild disturbance and Australia as a recent invasive weed at elevations of sea level to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with large, ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem completely enveloped by linear-lanceolate, erect, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, cylindrical, long bracteate, rachis 1.2 to 8" [3 to 20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with spreading-incurved, ovate, acuminate, longer to equal to the length of the flowers floral bracts.

Synonyms Disa micrantha (Lindl.) Bolus 1888; Disa praetermissa Schltr. 1924; Monadenia australiensis Rupp 1946; Monadenia bracteata (Sw.) T.Durand & Schinz1894; Monadenia micrantha Lindl. 1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as Monadenia micrantha drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as Monadenia micrantha; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as Monadenia australiensis; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Monadenia bracteata photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 40 2000 nas monadenia bracteata; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; Native Australian Orchids Jones 2006 photo fide

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