Disa schizodioides Sond. 1846SECTION Phlebidia

Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa

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

full sun Cold LATESummer EARLYSummer

Common Name The Schizodium-Like Disa

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in southern Cape Province South Africa, in peaty soil or in crevices or among rocks in full sun at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cold growing terresrial with radical, narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, to 10" [ to 25 cm] long, usually single flowered inflorescence,

Synonyms Orthopenthea schizodioides (Sond.) Rolfe 1912

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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