Disa engleriana Kraenzl. 1902 SECTION Micranthae
Photos by Eric La Croix, courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
EARLIER 
Common Name Engler's Disa [German Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in woodlands and grasslands on laterite and sandy soils at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with sterile and fertile shoots carrying imbricate cauline leaves that blooms in the earlier summer on an erect, lax to subdense, 2.4 to 8.8" [6 to 22 cm] long, 3 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate usually exceeding the flowers floral bracts
Synonyms Disa subscutellifera Kraenzl. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo ok; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 photo fide;
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