Disperis raiilabris Summerh.

Kurzweil, Hubert & Manning, John C., 2005, A synopsis of the genus Disperis Sw. (Orchidaceae), Adansonia (3) 27 (2), pp. 155-207 : 188

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5194608

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scientific name

Disperis raiilabris Summerh.
status

 

43. Disperis raiilabris Summerh. View in CoL

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939: 491 (1939); Szlachetko F Olszewski, Fl. Camer. 34: 38 (1998). — Type: Central African Republic, Yalinga , Le Testu 2804 (holo-, K; iso-, P) .

Plants to 150 mm. Leaf 1, ovate, to 12 mm long. Flowers 1-4, yellow; median sepal ligulate, 10 × 2 mm, lateral sepals semi-orbicular, free; petals reflexed, about 10 mm long; lip blade lanceolate, glabrous at tip, appendage of two deflexed lobes, papillose.

The curious epithet derives from the fancied resemblance of the lip to a flat-fish of the genus Raia ( SUMMERHAYES 1939) .

DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — Central African Republic; in moist sandy places in woody savanna. Flowering in May.

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

P

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

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Disperis

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