Disa physodes Sw.1800 SECTION Monadenia

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Common Name The Bellows-Like Disa

Flower Size 3/4" [2.2 cm]

Found in SW Cape Province South Africa in wet grasslands at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters as a small to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, 10 to 24" [25 to 60 cm] long, cylidrical, subdense inflorescence

Synonyms Monadenia physodes (Sw.) Rchb.f. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982;