Disperis dicerochila Summerh. 1935
Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
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Common Name The Twice Horned Lip Disperis
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopoa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in leaf litter, on mossy branches and rocks in rainforests and plantations at elevations of 1600 to 2830 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial, epiphyte or lithophyte with 2, distinctly alternate but close together on stem, ovate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late fall or late spring on an erect, brown, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, lanceolate bracts.
Synonyms Disperis allisonii Rolfe 1913; Disperis buchananii Rolfe 1913; Disperis ermelensis Rolfe 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Summerhayes 1968 drawing fide; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing hmm; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 photo/drawing fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006 ; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 photo fide;
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