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Orchid Species: Disa racemosa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Disa racemosa is an orchid species identified by L.f. in 1782.
ORIGIN: From the Cape regions of South Africa in swampy regions and along streams at an altitude of 250 to 1500 meters that requires a fire to bring on blooming.
DESCRIPTION: A winter blooming, small to large sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 10, narrowly lanceolate leaves on a leafy stem which graduate up into bracts that blooms in the spring on an elongate, bracteate raceme that is laxly 2 to 12 flowered and is from the Cape regions of South Africa in swampy regions and along streams at an altitude of 250 to 1500 meters that requires a fire to bring on blooming.
FLOWER SIZE: To about 2 inches [to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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