Disa sagittalis (L. f.) Sw. 1800 SECTION Coryphaea TYPE for the Section

Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa

Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name The Arrow-Shaped Disa

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in South Africa in stony soil in rock crevasses or along streams at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters partail shade as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with large tubes and a stem carrying 5 to 10 basal, elliptical leaves that are green at blooming and dry sheathing leaves on the stem that blooms on a basal, 3/4" to 4 3/4" [2 to 12 cm] long, laxly to densely, few to many flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring.

Synonyms Disa attenuata Lindl. 1838; *Orchis sagittalis L.f. 1782; Satyrium sagittale (L.f.) Thunb. 1794

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 7 1958 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006

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