Disa harveyana Lindl. 1842 SECTION Coryphaea
Plant with tuber in situ South Africa
Plant as Inflorescence arises Photos by © Tyrone Genade
and EARLY
Common Name Harvey's Disa [Irish Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Southwest South Africa in shrubby habitats on dry slopes associated with sandstone as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal, lorate, dry at flowering leaves that blooms in the spring [subsp harveyana] through early summer [subsp longicalcarata] on a terminal, erect, lax, fto 24" [to 60 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Disa harveyana subsp. longicalcarata S.D.Johnson & H.P.Linder 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Synonym of D draconis; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006
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