Disperis oxyglossa Bolus 1885 Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Plant in situ South Africa Photo by © Cameron McMaster

Common Name The Pointed Tongue Disperis

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in Cape Province and Natal South Africa in tall grasslands in seepage areas at elevations of 1400 to 2500 meters as a robust, small sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, alternate, sessile, elliptic to oblong-lanceoalte, acute to obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 8 1981 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos

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