Disperis mozambicensis Schltr. 1897

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name The Mozambique Disperis

Flower Size

Found in Mozambique in moist bushes at low elevations as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot growing, glabrous terrrestrial with an erect, thin, strict stem carrying distantly, 3, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacute, erect-patent, upper smaller leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, subcorymbose, few flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-oblomng, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale rose red flowers.

"Bears some resemblance to D reichenbachiana in habit." Schlechter 1897

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 428 Schlechter 1897

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