Disa macrostachya (Lindl.) Bolus 1889 SECTION Monadenia

Plant and Flowers in situ Cape Province

Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name The Large Inflorescence Disa

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in W Cape Province near streams in rocky soil at elevations around 1500 meters as a slender small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 4 to 8, linear, acute, lorate, the rest sheathing leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, lax, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Monadenia macrostachya Lindl.1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Monadenia macrostachya; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide;

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