Disa longilabris Schltr. 1906 SECTION Trichochila
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Long Lipped Disa
Flower Size to 3/4" [to 1.8 cm]
Found in Tanzania and Malawi in short montane grasslands at elevations of 2400 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with numerous subschleophyllus, basal leaves and 5 to 7 cauline , imbicate to lax leaves arising after blooming that blooms in the early spring on an erect, 4.8 to 10" [12 to 25 cm] long, subdensely 4 to 18 flowered inflorescence with dry bracts that are shorter than the flower
Synonyms Herschelia longilabris (Schltr.) Rolfe 1919; Herschelianthe longilabris (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983
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 fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceaea Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1998 as Herschelia longilabris;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
