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Disa stenoglossa

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Name

Identification
Disa stenoglossa Bolus [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Disa patula Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Linder, H.P.,
Related name
  • Disa patula
  • Disa stenoglossa

Flora

Entry for Disa patula Sond. [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 patula Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xix. 94;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 201; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 773.
Disa stenoglossa Bolus [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 173, 199, fig. 11.
Monadenia leydenbergensis Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 811.
Information
plant 3/4–1 1/4 ft. high; stem stout; leaves cauline, numerous, suberect, lanceolate to ovate-anceolate, acute or acuminate, 2–5 in. long, reduced upwards into the bracts; scapes 3/4–1 1/4 ft. high; spikes 2–6 in. long, dense or rarely lax, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 3/4–1 in. long; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long; flowers medium-sized, pink or rose, sometimes spotted and lined with purple; dorsal sepal galeate, broadly oblong, obtuse, with a somewhat involute margin, 4–6 lin. long; spur cylindrical from a narrowly conical base, rather slender, subobtuse, somewhat curved, rather longer than the limb; lateral sepals oblong, obtuse, with a broad obtuse dorsal apiculus, 4–6 lin. long; petals obliquely ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3 1/2–4 lin. long; lip linear, slightly thickened above, 5–6 lin. long; column short; anther reflexed; rostellum short, 3-dentate; stigma pulvinate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; on a flat hill top above Featherstone Kloof, near Grahamstown, 2300 ft., MacOwan, 678! Howisons Poort Hills, 2200 ft., Galpin, 3089! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 2000 ft., Hutton! Queenstown Div.; slopes of the Winterberg Range, Zeyher! Mrs. Barber, 522!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 682! Krielis Country, Bowker, 353! and without precise locality, Hallack! Natal; hill near Mooi River, 4200 ft., Wood, 4077! Oliviers Hoek, 5000 ft., Allison, N! and without precise locality, Mrs. Saunders.KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Mac Mac, Mudd! near Lydenberg, Atherstone! Wilms, 1364.
Notes
This has smaller flowers and relatively much longer leaves than D. nervosa, Lindl., with which it has been confused by Schlechter. I cannot, however, separate D. stenoglossa, Bolus, of which Mrs. L. Bolus has kindly sent a flower from the type specimen.

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