Disa erubescens Rendle 1895 SUBGENUS Micranthe
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
Photo courtesy of © The Kew Collection
Common Name The Reddish Disa
Flower Size 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm]
Found in Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in short, upland grasslands with poor drainage and in swamps at elevations of 1550 to 2800 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with sterile and fertile shoots carrying imbricate cauline leaves grading upwards to bracts both spotted with red that blooms in the summer on an erect, lax , to 12" [to 30 cm] long, 3 to 8 [12] flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate usually exceeding the flowers floral bracts
Synonyms Disa carsonii N.E.Br. 1898; Disa erubescens subsp. carsonii (N.E.Br.) H.P.Linder 1981; Disa erubescens var. carsonii (N.E.Br.) Geerinck 1982; Disa erubescens var. leucantha Schltr. 1915; Disa stolzii Schltr.1915;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968 as D stoltzii; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo fide; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as D stolzii drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as D carsonii; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing/photo fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as D erubescens var carsonii; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as D erubescens var katangensis; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 as D stoltzii photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995AS D erubescens subsp carsonii; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #3 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;
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