Disa ophrydea (Lindl.) Bolus 1888 SECTION Monadenia
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
Common Name The Ophyrs-Like Disa
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in southwestern and southern Cape Province South Africa on south-facing montane slopes in dry to moist sandy to gravelly soils at elevations of 100 to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with lanceolate to narrowly lanceoalte, suffused with beet red leaves that blooms in teh spring on an erect, terminal, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, lax, several flowereed inflorescence
Synonyms Brownleea pentheriana Kraenzl. ex Zahlbr. 1905; Disa sonderiana Schltr. ex Kraenzl. 1900; *Monadenia ophrydea Lindl.1838;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Monadenia ophrydea; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Monadenia ophrydea photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 as Monadenia ophrydea photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #1 2002 photo ok; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 drawing fide;
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