Disa pulchella Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 SECTION Stenocarpa Lindl. Drawing by © M.A. Richard and The Plant Illustration Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Disa

Flower Size .8" [.8 cm]

Found in Ethiopia and Yemen in erica thickets and alpine scrublands at elevations of 1800 to 3800 meters as a miniatuer to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a leafy, erect stem carrying 5 to 8, largest in center, lanceolate to linear-elliptic leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, cylindric, 1.4 to 4.4" [3.5 to 11 cm] long, densely 3 to many flowered inflorescence carrying sweetly scented flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004

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