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Disa tenuifolia

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Name

Identification
Orchis filicornis L.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Disa tenuifolia Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward,
Related name
  • Disa tenuifolia
  • Penthea not on sheet
  • Ophrys patens
  • Orchis filicornis
  • Penthea patens
  • Disa patens

Flora

Entry for PENTHEA patens Lindl. [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
PENTHEA patens Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 362;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 74, 82, 89; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 158; Sond. in Linnæa, xx. 220.
Ophrys patens Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 404; Murr. Syst. Veg. xiv. 814.
Serapias patens Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 3.
Disa patens Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], partly in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 214; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 232; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 69; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 105; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 742; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 229.
Disa tenuifolia Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 214; Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 157, Orch. Cap. Penins. 157, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 199.
Information
plant 3–10 in. high; stem somewhat slender; leaves radical, numerous, the lower spreading, the rest suberect, linear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, acute, 1/2–1 in. long; scapes 3–10 in. long, with numerous narrow acuminate sheaths; spikes short, loosely subcorymbose, 1–5- (rarely to 8-) flowered; bracts lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 4–8 lin. long; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long; flowers rather large, bright yellow; dorsal sepal nearly flat, broadly ovate or cordate-ovate, shortly acuminate, 6–8 lin. long; spur obsolete; lateral sepals narrowly ovate from a broad oblique base, with a narrow falcate acuminate apex, 6–8 lin. long; petals falcate-oblong, acute, with a rounded basal auricle in front, 3–4 lin. long; lip narrowly linear, subfiliform above, 4 lin. long; column 4 lin. long; anther incurved, acuminate, furnished with a narrow petaloid wing on each side; rostellum erect, 3-partite, with oblong divaricate side lobes; front lobe triangular, acute, concave; stigma pulvinate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ezels Bank, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1232 c. Piquetberg Div.; near Pikeniers Kloof, 1000–5000 ft., Zeyher, 1580! Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon & Zeyher! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1232 b! Cap. Div.; Table Mountain, 800–3500 ft., Burchell, 656! Harvey! Prior! Drège, 1232 a! Ecklon, 343! Bolus! Wolley-Dod, 882! Rehmann, 570! Kässner, Schlechter, 145, 187; Muizen Berg, 1500 ft., Bolus, 3913! Trimen! Schlechter, Kässner; Stein Berg, Wolley-Dod, 2112 b. Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Bowie! Genadendal, Prior! Baviaans Kloof, Krauss; Steenbrass River, Mund. Swellendam Div.; summit of a mountain peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7338! ridges near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3932! Langeberg Range, above Tradouw Pass, Mund. Riversdale Div.; Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7055! George Div.; near George, 650 ft., Schlechter, 5865! plains at Woodville, 800 ft., Galpin, 4619!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Roxburgh! Brown! Hesse, 13! Sieber! Bunbury! Grey! Scully! Leibold.

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