Disa venosa Sw. 1800 SECTION Disa

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

Common Name The Veined Disa

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southwestern Cape Province South Africa in swampy areas in full sun at elevations of sea-level to 1000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with radical, narrowly lanceolate leaves grading into the cauline leaves above leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, laxly 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence,

Synonyms Disa excelsa Thunb. ex N.E.Br.1884

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 10 1980 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006

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