Disperis cooperi Harv.

Kurzweil, Hubert & Manning, John C., 2005, A synopsis of the genus Disperis Sw. (Orchidaceae), Adansonia (3) 27 (2), pp. 155-207 : 200

67. Disperis cooperi Harv.

Thes. Cap. 2: 47 (1863); Schlechter, Bull. Herb.

Boissier, ser. 1, 6: 920 (1898); Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3:

295 (1913); J.C. Manning in H. P. Linder F

Kurzweil, Orch. S. Afr.: 317 (1999). — Type: South

Africa, Free State, Cooper 1100 (lecto-, W).

Disperis allisonii Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3: 297 (1913). — Type: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Allison 8 (holo-, K).

Disperis buchananii Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3: 296 (1913). — Type: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Buchanan 1070 (holo-, K).

Disperis ermelensis Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3: 296 (1913). — Type: South Africa, Mpumalanga, Todd ex Wood 3176 (holo-, BOL; iso-, NH).

Plants somewhat pubescent, to 380 mm. Leaves 3-4, alternate, lanceolate, ± 1 1-20 × 5-7 mm. Flowers 7-11, in secund racemes, cream and pink; median sepal saccate, ovate, 8 × 6 mm, lateral sepals obovate, 10-11 × 4 mm; petals clawed, oblong-obovate, 5.5 × 3 mm; lip blade cordate and navicular, apex adhering to petals and median sepal, appendage oblong, horizontal, pubescent.

DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Mpumalanga); occasional in montane grassland, usually in damp places, sometimes also in vleis from 1200 to 2100 m. Flowering mainly in February and March .