Schizodium flexuosum (L.) Lindl. 1838 Photo by Hubert Kurzweil ©, and his South African Orchid Website

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Common Name The Flexuous Schizodium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in WSW Cape Province on sand along streams at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with cauline, basally claspingleaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, 1 to 3 [5] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Disa flexuosa (L.) Sw. 1800; *Orchis flexuosa L.1760; Orchis undulata Poir. 1798; Satyrium flexuosum (L.) Thunb. 1794

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006

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