Disa chrysostachya Sw. 1800 SUBGENUS Micranthae
Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa Photo by © Cameron McMaster
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EARLY
Common Name The Golden Yellow Disa
Flower Size 7/8" [2.2 cm]
Found in Lesotho, Swaziland, Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal South Africa in damp and marshy areas at elevations of near sea-level to 2100 meters as a small to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a fertile shoot with cauline, tightly overlapping leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, slender, tapering, 4 to 26" [10 to 55 cm] long, many [40 to 120] flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Disa gracilis Lindl. 1838
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as D chrysantha; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 9 1979 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 drawings fide;
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