Disperis oxyglossa Bolus

Kurzweil, Hubert & Manning, John C., 2005, A synopsis of the genus Disperis Sw. (Orchidaceae), Adansonia (3) 27 (2), pp. 155-207 : 201

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5194664

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D987CB-5E16-FFE2-18A3-535DFBADF901

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Carolina

scientific name

Disperis oxyglossa Bolus
status

 

72. Disperis oxyglossa Bolus View in CoL

J. Linn. Soc. , Bot. 22: 76 (1885); Schlechter, Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 1, 6: 917 (1898); Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3: 301 (1913) ; J. C. Manning in H. P. Linder F Kurzweil , Orch . S. Afr. : 314 (1999) . — Type: South Africa, Griqualand East, Tyson 1603 (holo-, BOL).

Plants to 330 mm. Leaves 2-4, alternate, ovate, 10-35 × 4-8 mm. Flowers 2-7, pink and cream; median sepal lanceolate, 12-14 × 4-5 mm, saccate, lateral sepals ± horizontal, lanceolate, 14-17 × 4.5-7 mm; petals clawed, elliptic, 8-10 × 2.5- 4 mm; lip blade triangular and shallowly funnelshaped, appendage ovate, with lateral flanges.

DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — South Africa (Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal); in damp grassland, commonly in seepages or along water courses from 1200 to 2700 m. Flowering mainly from January to February .

J

University of the Witwatersrand

C

University of Copenhagen

H

University of Helsinki

P

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

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Disperis

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