Disa marlothii Bolus 1905 SECTION Coryphaea Lindl.

Plant and Flowers in situ Cape Province

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

LATE EARLY

Common Name Marloth's Disa [German, South African Botanist and Chemist late 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southwestern and southern Cape Province rock crevasses near streams in mountains at elevations around 600 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 3 to 10, elliptic, spreading, the rest lax, cauline sheathing leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, to 14" [to 35 cm] long, corymbose, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006

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