| Disa cardinalis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Disa |
| Species: | D. cardinalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Disa cardinalis | |
Disa cardinalis is a species of orchid found in South Africa (S. Cape Prov. - Riversdale). [2] [3]
The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV (2016): the family now includes the former families Anarthriaceae, Centrolepidaceae and Lyginiaceae, and as such includes 51 genera with 572 known species. Based on evidence from fossil pollen, the Restionaceae likely originated more than 65 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, when the southern continents were still part of Gondwana.
Disa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. It comprises about 182 species. Most of the species are indigenous to tropical and southern Africa, with a few more in the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar, and Réunion. Disa bracteata is naturalised in Western Australia, where the local name is "African weed-orchid."
Disa stairsii is a species of Disa of the family Orchidaceae that can be found growing with the giant heathers on the Rwenzori Mountains of mountains in East Tropical Africa as well as in the Congo in West-Central Tropical Africa.
Disa bracteata, also known as the bract disa, leek orchid or the South African weed orchid is a species of orchid native to South Africa.
Disa cernua is a species of orchid found in South Africa, in Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces.
Disa cornuta is a species of orchid found from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
Disa draconis is a species of orchid found in South Africa.
Disa purpurascens is a species of orchid found in South Africa. It is also known as the early blue disa or the bloumoederkappie.
Disa sagittalis is a species of orchid found in South Africa from south and southeast Cape Province to southern KwaZulu-Natal.
Disa tripetaloides is a species of orchid that grows along the edges of streams in South Africa. This is one of the smaller species in the genus Disa in the section Disa. There are populations that come from the winter-rainfall areas of South Africa, and summer-rainfall areas of South Africa.
Disa borbonica is a species of orchid in the Orchidaceae family. It is endemic to Réunion.
Ceratocaryum is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1836. The entire genus is endemic to Cape Province in South Africa.
Disa graminifolia is a species of orchid found in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.
Disa ferruginea is a sturdy, reed-like terrestrial plant that typically grows between 200 and 450 mm tall. It has linear radical leaves that develop after flowering, while the dry cauline leaves form sheaths. The inflorescence is dense, with 1 to 40 flowers. The flowers themselves are bright red to orange, often with some yellow components. The median sepal has an apiculate tip, and a galea is 8 to 10 mm deep. The slender spur of the flower grades into the galea and measures 7 to 20 mm long. The lateral sepals project outward and are elliptic to narrowly elliptic, with apiculi that can reach up to 4 mm in length. The petals are spear-shaped and 5 to 7 mm long, while the lip is narrowly egg- to spear-shaped and 10 to 12 mm long.
Disa aurata is a species of orchid found in Swellendam area of Cape Province, South Africa at elevations of 0 – 1000 meters.
Disa virginalis is a species of orchid found in Southwest Cape Province, South Africa.
Disa zombica is a species of orchid, native to eastern and southern Tropical Africa. Its roots are edible and are made into a delicacy called chinaka in Malawi.
Disa intermedia is a species of orchid, native to Eswatini, formally Swaziland.
Pentameris pictigluma is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to Cameroon in West Africa, Ethiopia to Tanzania in East Africa, and Yemen. It was first described by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in 1854 as Aira pictigluma.
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