Disperis paludosa Harv. ex Lindl.

Kurzweil, Hubert & Manning, John C., 2005, A synopsis of the genus Disperis Sw. (Orchidaceae), Adansonia (3) 27 (2), pp. 155-207 : 202

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5186519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5194670

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D987CB-5E17-FFE3-1A76-57D6FEF6FC00

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scientific name

Disperis paludosa Harv. ex Lindl.
status

 

73. Disperis paludosa Harv. ex Lindl. View in CoL

London J. Bot. 1: 14 (1842); Schlechter, Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 1, 6: 916 (1898); Rolfe, Fl. Cap. 5, 3: 301 (1913); J. C. Manning in H. P. Linder F Kurzweil, Orch. S. Afr.: 314 (1999). — Type: South Africa, Camps Bay , Harvey s.n. (syn-, TCD); Table Mountain , Harvey s.n. (syn-, TCD); French Hoek Pass, Harvey s.n. (syn-, K, K-LINDL) .

Plants to 460 mm. Leaves 2-5, alternate, linearlanceolate, 15-80 × 1.5-7 mm. Flowers 2-5, magenta with green dots; median sepal narrowly elliptic, 10-12 × 3-4.5 mm, lateral sepals deflexed, lanceolate, 10-12 × 3-5 mm; petals clawed, lanceolate, ± 10-11 × 3 mm; lip blade triangular, appendage elliptic ( Figs 1H View FIG ; 13A, B View FIG ).

DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — South Africa (widespread in the Western and ranging into the Eastern Cape); occurring in both summer- and winter-rainfall regions, in sandy soils in marshy Restio -veld from (20-) 200 to 1050 m. Flowering mainly from November to December, particularly after fire .

J

University of the Witwatersrand

C

University of Copenhagen

H

University of Helsinki

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

S

Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History

TCD

Trinity College

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Disperis

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