Disperis oppositifolia Sm. 1808
Another Flower color with plant
Photo by © Labat and Mobot Madagascar Photo List
Photo by © Olaf Pronk
Disperis oppositifolia var. mascarenensis Bosser 2002
Plant and Flower in situ Reunion
Photos by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
Common Name The Opposite Leafed Disperis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the Comoros, Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar in humid forests on rocks by streams, at base of trees in moss and in riparian forests at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an elongate tuber giving rise to a stem carrying 2, opposite, lanceolate to oval-lanceolate, subcordate leaves held above the center that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence,
Synonyms Disperis oppositifolia var. mascarenensis Bosser 2002; Dryopeia oppositifolia (Sm.) Thouars 1822; Dryorkis antidris Thouars 1822
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Dryopeia oppositifolia drawing fide; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Philipp Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo ?; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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