Disa sanguinea Sond. 1846SECTION Trichochila Photo by © Kurzweil

Plant and Inflorescnece in situ Photo by © Maureen Ponting and her Nature Trek Flickr Orchid Photo Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Blood Red Disa

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Natal South Africa in montane grasslands as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, lanceolate, imbricate, longest at base, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Disa huttonii Rchb.f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe and Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide;

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