Disperis concinna Schltr.

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5186519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5194654

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scientific name

Disperis concinna Schltr.
status

 

66. Disperis concinna Schltr. View in CoL

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20, Beibl. 50: 43 (1895), Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 1, 6: 920 (1898); Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3: 299 (1913); la Croix F P . J . Cribb , Fl. Zambes.: 239 (1995); J . C . Manning in H . P . Linder F Kurzweil , Orch. S . Afr. : 318 (1999). — Type: South Africa, Transvaal, Schlechter s.n. (holo-, B †) .

Plants to 350 mm. Leaves 3, alternate, ovate, 10-32 × 4-9 mm. Flowers 1-5, pale magenta or white; median sepal ovate, saccate, 4-5 × 3 mm, lateral sepals ovate, 6-7 × 2.5-3 mm; petals oblong, 3-5 × 1.5-2 mm; lip blade boat-shaped with reflexed tip, appendage finger-like, pubescent ( Fig. 13E, F View FIG ).

DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Mpumalanga) and Zimbabwe; rare in damp montane grassland, often along streams or on rock flushes, also in marshy areas, from 1400 to 2300 m. Flowering in January and February .

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

J

University of the Witwatersrand

C

University of Copenhagen

H

University of Helsinki

S

Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Disperis

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