Disperis purpurata Rchb.f. 1876 SUBGENUS Disperis

D purpurata subsp pallescens Photos by © Kurzweil

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

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Purple Disperis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Cape Province, South Africa in dry fynbos at elevations of 900 to 1900 meters as a slender, miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a minutely and thinly hairy stem carrying 2, well spaced, broadly ovate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, to 5" [12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Disperis namaquensis Bolus 1884; Disperis purpurata subsp. pallescens Bruyns 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 as D purpurata subsp pallescensphoto fide;

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