Disa ornithantha Schltr.1915 SUBGENUS Micranthe
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
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EARLY
Common Name The Bird-Like Flowered Disa
Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]
Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in woodlands and wet montane grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a sterile shoot with 3 to 4 , erect, conduplicate, linear, acute leaves and a fertile shoot with cauline, imbricate, ovate to lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 1.6 to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] long, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence.
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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/photo fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 photo fide;
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