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Disperis capensis

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Identification
Disperis capensis (L.) Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for DISPERIS capensis Sw. [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
DISPERIS capensis Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 220, t. 3, fig. F.;—Ker in Quart. Journ. Sci. & Arts, v. 104, t. 1, fig. 2; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 25; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 370; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 124; Sond. in Linnæa, xix. 112, xx. 221; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Fl. Capund Natal. 158; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 232; Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 175, Orch. Cap. Penins. 175, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 205, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 89; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 118; Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 re sér. vi. 915; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 830, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 9.
Arethusa capensis Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 405; Thunb. Prodr. 3.
Dipera capensis Spreng. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Syst. Veg. iii. 696.
Dipera tenera Spreng. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Syst. Veg. iii. 696.
Information
plant 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high; stems erect, rather slender, somewhat flexuous, covered with long spreading hairs below the middle; leaves cauline, sessile, with sheathing base, usually 1 or 2, suberect, lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1–2 in. long; scapes 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high, 1- (rarely 2-) flowered; bracts ovate-anceolate, acute or acuminate, 3/4–1 in. long; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; flowers large, yellowish or greenish, often with the petals purple or lilac and darker at the margins; dorsal sepal erect, galeate, 10–12 lin. long, obovate-oblong, broad and angled above, then suddenly contracted into a setaceous point about as long as the limb; lateral sepals spreading, lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 12–14 lin. long, with a conical very shallow sac near the base; petals cohering with the dorsal sepal, 5 lin. long, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, with a setaceous point 2 lin. long; lip spathulate-lanceolate, very narrow at the base, acuminate, decurved and usually hooked at the apex, 6–7 lin. long; appendage linear or oblong, somewhat lacerate, short or sometimes absent; column short; rostellum broadly cordate-ovate, subobtuse, with recurved margins; arms linear from a broader base, spirally twisted, acuminate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; heathy places on the Cape Flats, Burchell, 8527! Bolus, 3735! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 177! Harvey, 122! Prior! Table Mountain, up to 3500 ft., Bergius, Mund, Ecklon & Zeyher, Krauss, 1319, Kässner, Tyson, 3236; at Orange Kloof, Schlechter, 1316! Devils Peak, Wilms, 3660a! Wolley-Dod, 601! Lion Mountain, Harvey! Wilms, 3660! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Mund, Schlechter, 1157; Stellenbosch, Lloyd in Herb. Sanderson, 932! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 1000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 3936! Zwart Berg, Ecklon & Zeyher! Riversdale Div.; Langeberg Range, near Riversdale, 2500 ft., Schlechter. George Div.; Cradock Berg, near George, Burchell, 5943! near Montagu Pass, Penther. Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Forcade; Ruigte Vallei, under 500 ft., Drège, 8278! Port Elizabeth Div.; bushy places at Port Elizabeth, Kemsley! marshes near Algoa Bay, MacOwan, 1910! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Williamson! and without precise locality, Hutton! Eastern Districts of Cape Colony, Hallack! Var. β: Cape Div.; damp rocks at Waai Vley, 3000–3200 ft., Wolley-Dod, 3074!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Krielis Country, Bowker!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson, Lalande, Leibold, Trimen, Forbes, Mrs. Holland, 6! Menzies!

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