Disa hians Spreng. 1826 SECTION Trichochila
Color Form "Lafayette" CBR/AOS Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Michael Gallagher
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
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Common Name The Open Disa - Bloumoederkappie
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in southern Cape Province South Africa in well drained often gravelly soils at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters near the cape as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 6 to 8 radical, semi-rigid, erect leaves, completely sheathing, lax, brown cauline leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, lax, 3 to 16 flowered inflorescence carrying very color variable, non resupinate flowers .
Synonyms Disa lacera Sw. 1800; Disa outeniquensis Schltr. 1924; Graphorkis hians (L.f.) Kuntze 1891; Herschelia hians (L.f.) A.V.Hall 1973; Herschelia lacera (Sw.) Fourc. 1932; Herschelianthe hians (L.f.) Rauschert 1983; Herschelianthe lacera (Sw.) Rauschert 1983; Limodorum hians (L.f.) Thunb. 1794 ;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 drawing as D lacera; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Herschelia hians; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 as Herschelianthe hians; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999 drawing/photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #7 2007 photo fide;
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