Disperis togoensis Schltr.

Kurzweil, Hubert & Manning, John C., 2005, A synopsis of the genus Disperis Sw. (Orchidaceae), Adansonia (3) 27 (2), pp. 155-207 : 174-175

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

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scientific name

Disperis togoensis Schltr.
status

 

4. Disperis togoensis Schltr. View in CoL

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 38: 2 (1905); Verdcourt, Fl. Trop. East Afr. : 221 (1968); Summerhayes, Fl. W. Trop. Afr., ed. 2: 203 (1968); Geerinck, Fl. Afr. Centr.: 237 (1984); la Croix F P. J. Cribb, Fl. Zambes.: 246 (1995); Szlachetko F Olszewski, Fl. Camer. 34: 38 (1998). — Types: Togo, Schlechter 12990 (holo-, B †); Cameroon, Bamenda Distr., Maitland 1519 (neo-, K, designated by Geerinck 1984) .

Disperis cardiopetala Summerh. , Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 33: t. 3270 (1935), nom. nov. pro D. cordata Summerh., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 252 (1933) , nom. illegit., non D. cordata Sw. (1800) . — Type: Cameroon, Bamenda Distr., Maitland 1519 (holo-, K).

Disperis atacorensis A.Chev., Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franç. I View in CoL : 622 (1920), nom. nud.

Plants 50-150 mm. Leaves 1-3, alternate, ovate, 6-35 × 5-20 mm. Flowers 3-10, pink; median sepal 7-8.5 × 0.5-1 mm, hood shallow, lateral sepals semi-ovate, 8-11 × 4-5 mm, joined for quarter to half; petals ovate, 7-10 × 2- 3.5 mm; lip 4.5-5 mm long, blade rotund, with papillate knob in centre, stalked, appendage of two papillate diverging lobes ( Fig. 4F View FIG ).

DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — Southcentral, eastern and western Africa ( Malawi, Mozambique, Zaire / DRC, Uganda, Tanzania, C o n g o, C a m e ro o n, Ni g e r i a, Gh a n a, To g o, Benin); in savanna, among rocks or at forest margins at 140-1500 m. Flowering from February to August.

W

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

P

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

J

University of the Witwatersrand

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Disperis

Loc

Disperis togoensis Schltr.

Kurzweil, Hubert & Manning, John C. 2005
2005
Loc

Disperis atacorensis A.Chev., Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franç. I

A. Chev. 1920: 622
1920
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