Disa pygmaea Bolus

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 45-150 mm tall; leaves narrowly ovate, acute, 15-20 mm long. Inflorescences cylindrical, dense, 15-100 mm long, longer than the leafy part of the stem; bracts taller than the flowers. Flowers with lime-green lip and petals, green lateral sepals and rusty-brown median sepal and spur. Median sepal shallowly galeate, oblong, obtuse, 5-6 mm long; spur c. 2.5 mm long, cylindrical, retuse, fal-cately curved towards the ovary; lateral sepals patent, apices reflexed, oblong, obtuse, 4 mm long. Petals obliquely narrowly oblong with a small tooth to the rear, the apex shortly and acutely bifid, 4 mm long. Lip subpendent, lorate, 3-4 mm long. Anther pendent, 1 mm long; stigma 0.3 mm tall; rostellum 1 mm tall.
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Slender, tuberous geophyte to 15 cm. Leaves narrowly ovate. Flowers many in a dense raceme, lime-green, spur ± 2.5 mm long, cylindrical, lateral sepals oblong, 4 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.15
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Environment

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Soil texture 5-6
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Usage

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Therapeutic use -
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Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Distribution

Disa pygmaea world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:630228-1
WFO ID wfo-0000944530
COL ID 36S2Z
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Monadenia pygmaea Disa pygmaea