Disa ochrostachya Rchb.f. 1865 SUBGENUS Micranthe
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
EARLY
Common Name The Ochre-Colored Inflorescence Disa
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Rwanda, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in montane grasslands at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a miniature to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a sterile shoot with erect, acute, narrowly elliptic, conduplicate leaves and a fertile much taller, slender to robust, cauline, imbricate, acute to apiculate leaves that blooms in the spring through early summer on an erect, lax, 6" to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, 50 to 200 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Disa adolphi-fridericii Kraenzl. 1909; Disa aurantiaca Rchb.f. 1867; Disa ochrostachya var. major Rendle 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing hmm; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing/photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; The 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
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