Disa ocellata Bolus 1884 SECTION Disella
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
LATE
Common Name The Eyed Disa
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southwestern Cape Province South Africa in moss banks in stony soils at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, linear, erect, imbricate leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, lax, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Disa maculata Harv. ex Lindl. 1842
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; 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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