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Disa versicolor

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Identification
Disa versicolor Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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  • Disa versicolor

Flora

Entry for Disa Macowani Reichb. 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 Macowani Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 106;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 198; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 104; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 754, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 7.
Disa versicolor Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 240, partly, not of Reichb. f.
Information
plant 1–1 3/4 ft. high; stem stout; leaves radical and cauline, suberect, somewhat fleshy, the former elongate-linear, acute or acuminate, 6–11 in. long, the latter ovate-oblong, acute, 1 1/2–3 in. long; scapes 1–1 3/4 ft. high, with lanceolate acute sheaths above; spikes cylindrical, 4–9 in. long, very dense and many-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4–8 lin. long; pedicels about 4 lin. long; flowers small, pink; dorsal sepal galeate, broadly ovate, obtuse or minutely apiculate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; spur descending, cylindrical, obtuse, nearly straight, rather shorter than the limb; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, apiculate, spreading, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; petals obliquely ovate, subobtuse, 2–2 1/4 lin. long; lip subspathulate-oblong, 2–2 1/4 lin. long; column very short; anther reflexed; rostellum broadly triangular-oblong, truncate; stigma pulvinate. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION wet places at the summit of Bosch Berg, 4800 ft., MacOwan, 1123! Scully.COAST REGION Victoria East Div.; Hogsback Range, 5500 ft., Galpin, 7993! Cathcart Div.; near Cathcart, 2600 ft., Flanagan, 1686.EASTERN REGION Transkei; summit of Mount Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 592! Pondoland; foot of Mount Eulenzi, near Fort William, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2697! Griqualand East; plain at summit of the Insizwa Range, 6500 ft., Schlechter, Krook, Penther, 143. Natal; near Lambonjwa River, Wood, 3421! Oliviers Hoek, 4000 ft., Allison, 35! Mooi River, 4000–5000 ft., Wood, 5361; near Highlands, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 6849. Swaziland, Henderson and Forbes (ex Galpin).KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; without precise locality, Cooper, 1095! Transvaal; Lomati Valley, near Barberton, 3900 ft., Galpin, 717! 1152; marshes near Botsabelo, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 4060! Witbank, Middelburg, 5300 ft., Galpin, 7247!
Notes
Allied to the Angolan D. versicolor, Reichb. f., with which it has been united, but is not identical.

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