Disa tysonii Bolus 1889 SECTION Reprandra

Plant and Flowers in situ Natal South Africa Photos by © Dr. Helmuth Zelesny and The Orchid of Europe Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Tyson's Disa [South African plant collector and teacher 1800's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in southern and eastern Cape Province and Natal South Africa as well as Lesotho at elevations up to 3000 meters in upland moist, rocky grasslands as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a robust stem carrying imbricate, narrowly ovate, acute, grading above into the bract-like leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence and carrying sweet vanilla scented flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #7 2007 photo fide; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photos fide;

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