Disperis concinna Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 11, Part 1, (1995) Author: I. la Croix and P.J. Cribb
Names
Disperis concinna Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20, Beibl. 50: 43 (1895). —Rolfe in F.C. 5: 299 (1913). —Stewart in Wild Orch. S. Afr.: 202 (1982). Type from South Africa.
Disperis sp. no. 1 [family ORCHIDACEAE], Grosvenor in Excelsa 6: 80 (1976).
Information
Slender terrestrial herb 10–25 cm tall.Leaves 1–4, alternate, erect, sessile, up to 2 cm long, elliptic or lanceolate.Inflorescence 1–4-flowered; flowers greenish-white with purple or rose-pink veins.Ovary 10 mm long; bracts 13 × 6 mm, leaf-like.Dorsal sepal 8 × 2.5–3 mm, forming a sac-like hood with the petals; hood 5 mm wide across the mouth.Lateral sepals spreading, 5–7 × 1.5–2mm, obliquely oblanceolate, apiculate, each with a conical, sac-like spur c. 1.5 mm long.Petals c. 8 × 2.5 mm, obliquely falcate-lanceolate.Lip claw narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse; limb conduplicate, c. 2 mm long; appendage longer than limb and broadly oblong, apiculate, keeled.Rostellum large, ovate, acute; side arms 3 mm long, oblong.
Habitat
Moist submontane grassland
Altitude range
c. 1800 m.
1800
1800
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Nyanga (Inyanga), 1800 m, fl. ii.1957, Payne 77 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal and Natal)
Disperis concinna Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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