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Disperis villosa

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Identification
Disperis villosa (L.f.) Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for DISPERIS villosa 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 villosa Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 220;—Ker in Quart. Journ. Sci. & Arts. vi. 44, t. 1, fig. 5; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 25; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 371; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 83, 98; Sond. in Linnæa, xix. 112, xx. 221; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Fl. Capund Natal. 158; Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 178, Orch. Cap. Penins. 178, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 205; Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 121; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 834, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 10; Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 re sér. vi. 942.
Arethusa villosa Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 405; Thunb. Prodr. 3.
Information
plant 1 1/2–6 in. high; stem moderately slender, villous; leaves cauline, 2, petiolate or subsessile, ovate or cordate, subacute or apiculate, rarely obtuse, velvety, 4–8 (rarely 12) lin. long; petioles 1–3 lin. long; scapes 1 1/2–6 in. high, 1- (rarely 2-) flowered; bracts cucullate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, subobtuse, velvety, 4–7 lin. long; pedicels 3–4 lin. long; flowers medium-sized, dull canary-yellow; dorsal sepal galeate, 3–4 lin. long, with a broadly triangular obtuse limb and a rounded obtuse sac; lateral sepals spreading, obovate from a narrower base, 4 lin. long, with a broadly conical obtuse sac close to and exceeding the apex; petals cohering with the dorsal sepal, broadly falcate-lanceolate, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, outer margin undulate; lip narrowly unguiculate; limb very short, apiculate, cucullate; appendage lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, cucullate, 3 or 4 times longer than the limb; column short; rostellum broadly triangular-ovate, large, margin reflexed; arms falcate-oblong, obtuse, twisted, about 2 lin. long; capsule elliptic-oblong, velvety, 4 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; near Sneeuwkop, on the Cederberg Range, Bodkin in Herb. Bolus! near Zwartbosch Kraal, 4000–5000 ft., Schlechter, 5175, Penther, Krook. Malmesbury Div.; sandy places at Saldanha Bay, Bachmann. Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, 400 ft., Schlechter. Paarl Div.; by the Berg River, near Paarl, under 500 ft., Drège, 481a! between Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drège, 481b! Drakenstein Mountains, 2000–3000 ft., Drège. Cape Div.; hills and Flats of Cape Peninsula, 20–600 ft., Bergius, Ludwig, Ecklon & Zeyher! Ecklon, 248! Pappe, 9! Harvey, 149! Prior! Kässner, Rehmann, 1858, Bolus, 3966! MacOwan in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 178! Krauss, 1321, Hutton! Schlechter, 1338! Wilms, 3656! Wolley-Dod, 1515! 3084! Mrs. Jameson! Stellenbosch Div.; Stellenbosch, Lloyd in Herb. Sanderson, 934! Hottentots Holland Mountains, Ecklon & Zeyher, Miss Farnham, Marloth. Caledon Div.; moist sandy places at the foot of mountains near Appels Kraal, Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3938! Genadendal, Roser! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Williamson!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson, Brown, Mund, Lalande, Leibold, Forbes, 86!

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