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Disa racemosa

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Identification
Disa racemosa L.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for Disa racemosa Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)
Names
Disa racemosa Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 406;—N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 232; Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 155, Orch. Cap. Penins. 155, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 199, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 85; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7021; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1887, ii. 809, 1888, iii. 592, 593, fig. 81; Journ. Hort. 1888, ii. 22, fig. 25; Warn. Orch. Alb. viii. t. 356; The Garden, 1891, xxxix. 10, t. 786; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 107; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 740; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 226.
Disa secunda Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 213; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 14; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 348; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 81.
Disa venosa Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 219, not of Sw.
Satyrium secundum Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 4.
Information
plant 1–2 1/4 ft. high; stem rather stout, somewhat flexuous; leaves radical or subradical, spreading or suberect, numerous, lanceolate, acute, membranous, 3–5 in. long; scapes 1–2 1/4 ft. high, with several narrow acuminate sheaths; spikes short, lax, 1–4-flowered; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3/4–1 in. long; pedicels about 1 in. long; flowers large, bright rose; dorsal sepal subgaleate, broadly ovate or suborbicular, subobtuse, 10–12 lin. long; spur broadly sac-shaped, obtuse, very short; lateral sepals broadly elliptic, obtuse, 10–12 lin. long; petals broadly falcate-oblong, incurved over the anther and subacute at the apex, 5–6 lin. long; lip linear, acute, about 4 lin. long; column about 5 lin. long; anther ascending; rostellum erect, 3-lobed; side lobes divaricate and furnished with a petaloid appendage behind; front lobe concave, obtuse; stigma pulvinate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Zeyher; Witzenberg Range, Mund. Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 1239a! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1612! 1684! 1685! Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Thunberg! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 2500 ft., Bolus, 4888! Harvey! Barkly! Schlechter, 94! Constantia Berg, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 186! head of Silvermine Valley, Wolley-Dod, 2138! Red Hill, Mrs. Jameson! Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Roser! Houw Hoek, 2550 ft., Pappe, 42! Schlechter, 9410! Bowie! Knoflooks Kraal and Klein Houw Hoek, 3000 ft., Zeyher, 3915! Swellendam Div.; on a mountain peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7408! Humansdorp Div.; near Zitzikamma, 200 ft., Schlechter. Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Hallack. Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near Grahamstown, 2200–2500 ft., MacOwan, 387! Galpin, 272, 292! Schönland, Hutton!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey! Yorke!

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