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Disa uniflora

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Identification
Disa uniflora P.J. Bergius [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for Disa uniflora Berg. [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 uniflora Berg. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 348;—N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 232; Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 147, Orch. Cap. Penins. 147, Journ. Linn Soc. xxv. 197, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 63; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 109; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 765, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 7; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 225.
Disa grandiflora Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 406; Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 210; Ker in Quart. Journ. Sci. & Arts, iv. 205, t. 6, fig. 1; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 7; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 926, Sert. Orch. t. 49, and Gen. & Sp. Orch. 347; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 77, 82; Bot. Mag. t. 4073; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 307, and Fl. Capund Natal. 158; Sond. in Linnæa, xx. 218; Fl. des Serres, t. 160; R. Trimen in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 233, fig. 1; Gard. Chron. 1882, xvii. 402, fig. 62, 1888, iv. 665, fig. 94; Lindenia, vii. t. 308; Reichenbachia, ser. 2, i. 33, t. 15; Fl. Mag. 1862, t. 69; Gartenfl. xl. 176, 177, fig. 48, 49; Rev. Hort. 1903, 84, with plate.
Disa Barelli Puydt [family ORCHIDACEAE], Orch. 275, t. 18.
Satyrium grandiflorum Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 4.
Information
plant 1–2 1/2 ft. high; stem stout, leafy; leaves lanceolate to elongate-linear, acute, usually somewhat spreading, 3–8 in. long, gradually passing upwards into acuminate sheaths; scapes 1–2 1/2 ft. high, with numerous acuminate sheaths above; spikes 1–2-flowered, rarely 3–5-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1 1/4–2 in. long; pedicels 1–1 3/4 in. long; flowers very large, brilliant scarlet, with darker veins on the dorsal sepal, and some yellow or orange on the petals; dorsal sepal galeate, broadly ovate; acute or apiculate, 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. long; spur narrowly conical, about 1/2 in. long; lateral sepals broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate, 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. long; petals obovate or obovate-oblong, with incurved subobtuse apex, 3/4–1 in. long; lip linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, recurved at the apex; column 3/4–1 in long; anther reclinate, narrow and acute; rostellum erect, somewhat elongate, with short divaricate side lobes; stigma pulvinate; capsule oblong, 1 1/2–2 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Ceres Div.; Gydouw Mountains (fide Bolus).COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, 1600 ft., Mader! Mac-Owan, 2031! Leipold, 602. Tulbagh Div.; Great Winterhoek Mountain, near Tulbagh, 2000–3000 ft., Drège. Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1240a! Paarl Div.; French Hoek Mountains, McGibbon! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 1100–3300 ft., at margins of streams, Bergius, Thunberg! Masson, Burchell, 858! Mund, Ecklon & Zeyher, Wallich! Krauss, Bunbury! Prior! Alexander! Harvey! Bolus, 4662! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 559! Kässner, Schlechter, 299; Penther, 153, 327; Constantia Mountains, 1550 ft., Schlechter, 185; Waai Vley, Wolley-Dod, 879!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Oldenburg, 1011! Villet, Sieber, 246! Yorke! Robertson! Mrs. Allport!

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