Disa caffra Bolus 1889 SECTION Micranthae Photo by The Alfred County Orchid Society South Africa

Another Flower Photo by Alain Petitjean

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Common Name or Meaning The Zululand Disa

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa and Madagascar in bogs and wet grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an oblong tuber, giving rise to 5 to 7, linear-acute, plicate leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Disa compta Summerh. 1964; Disa perrieri Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 as Disa perrier drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as D perrieri; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as D compta drawing/photo fide AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 9 1979 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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