Disa pillansii L.Bolus 1916SECTION Disa
Photo by Kurzweil
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
Common Name The Bellows-Like Disa
Flower Size 1.1" [2.8 cm]
Found in southwestern Cape Province South Africa along streams and moss seepages on cliff-faces at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with radical, elliptical leaves and cauline leaves above to sheathing that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, corymbose to subcorybose, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
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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