Disa miniata Summerh. 1964 SUBGENUS Micranthe
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
LATE 
Common Name The Least Disa
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in wet grasslands and river valleys at elevations above 1000 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a sterile shoot carrying, oblanceolate-linear, acute, conduplicate leaves and a fertile shoot carrying imbricate to subimbricate, lanceolate, acute, closely sheathing cauline leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, to 28" [70 cm] long, subdense to dense, 5 to 40 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
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 ok; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006
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