Disa eminii Kraenzl.1894 SUBGENUS Hircicornes SECTION Hircicornes Kranzlin
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
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Common Name Emin's Disa
Flower Size 7/8" [2.2 cm]
Found in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia in wet swamp forests at elevations of 1100 to 2100 meters as a slender, erect, medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with imbricate, semi-erect, conduplicate, linear, acute, becoming narrowly ovate to lanceolate then grading into the floral bracts that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, laxly 15 to 30 flowered inflorescence with floral bracts that are shorter than the ovaries.
Synonyms Disa stolonifera Rendle 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo good; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995
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