PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / ORCHIDACEAE / ORCHIDOIDEAE / ORCHIDEAE / DISA / CERNUA
Plants robust, 200-600 mm tall; leaves basal, (100-) 140-200 x 15-20 mm. Inflorescences 100-250 x 30-40 mm, flowers subimbricate; bracts as tall as the flowers, subacuminate. Flowers with cream-green sepals, mottled maroon, and lime-green petals and lip. Median sepal shallowly galeate, oblong, obtuse, 10-14 mm long; spur clavate, rounded, 11-17 x 3-5 mm, adpressed to the ovary; lateral sepals reflexed, narrowly oblong to oblong, acute to obtuse, 9-13 mm long. Petals sub-obliquely narrowly ovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate to obliquely retuse, 7-10 mm long. Lip lorate, rounded, subfleshy, 8-12 mm long. Anther sub-horizontal, 3 mm long; stigma 1 mm tall; rostel-lum 2-3 mm tall. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Terrestrial herb, robust geophyte, 0.2-0.6 m high. Leaves basal, linear-lanceolate, 140-200 x 15-20 mm. Inflorescence 100-250 mm long; bracts as tall as flowers. Flowers many, sepals creamy green, mottled maroon, lime-green petals and lip. Sepals: median sepal shallowly galeate, oblong, obtuse, 10-14 mm long; spur clavate, rounded, 11-17 mm long, appressed to the ovary; lateral sepals reflexed, narrowly acute to obtuse, 9-13 mm long. Petals subobliquely ovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate, 7-10 mm long. Lip lorate, rounded, subfleshy, 8-12 mm long. Anther subhorizontal, 3 mm long, rostellum 2-3 mm tall. Flowering time Sept.-Nov. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NL. 2019. Orchidaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1890-1958. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Robust, tuberous geophyte to 60 cm. Leaves basal, narrowly lanceolate. Flowers many in a dense raceme, sepals cream-green mottled maroon, petals and lip lime-green, spur clavate, rounded, 11-17 mm long, lateral sepals oblong, 9-13 mm long. From: Kurzweil, H. 2012. Orchidaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Damp habitats on the flats between the fold mountains and the sea. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Damp plains habitats between sea and mountain range. Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NL. 2019. Orchidaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1890-1958. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Sandy coastal flats. From: Kurzweil, H. 2012. Orchidaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Western and Eastern Cape from Cape Town to Humansdorp. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Cape Peninsula to Humansdorp. From: Kurzweil, H. 2012. Orchidaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
October
0 to 300 m
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Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Disa prasinata Ker Gawl.
Monadenia cernua (Thunb.) T.Durand & Schinz
Monadenia inflata Sond.
Monadenia prasinata (Ker Gawl.) Lindl.
Satyrium cernuum Thunb.
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Orchidaceae
SUBFAMILY Orchidoideae
TRIBE Orchideae
GENUS Disa
SPECIES cernua
20 results for Disa cernua (Thunb.) Sw.
Barcode: NBG0158021-0 Collector(s) & number: Paterson-Jones, JC, 650 | 1995-10-9
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0559526-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 4062 | 1962-9-25
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Barcode: PRE0049076-0 Collector(s) & number: Frowein, MW, TRV 15651 | 1915-10-
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Barcode: NBG0181885-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 4062 | 1962-9-25
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Barcode: NBG0150812-0 Collector(s) & number: Kurzweil, H, 1566 | 1991-11-22
General notes: Locally common in recently burnt marsh in the first year after fire (fire: Easter 1990); finished flowering. Disa sect. Monadenia.
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Barcode: PRE0482351-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 22797 | 1962-9-25
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Barcode: NBG0151376-0 Collector(s) & number: Steiner, KE, 2427 | 1991-10-15
General notes: Common in marsh, first year after fynbos fire. Sepals white to greenish white, dorsal sepal with red flecks; petals green. Disa sect. Monadenia.
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Barcode: NBG0183281-0 Collector(s) & number: Fourcade, HG, 1458 | 1921-9-
General notes: Petals green, sepals green, spotted and coloured purple-red. Bracts and peduncles green.
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Barcode: PRE0478573-0 Collector(s) & number: Bower, D, 600 | 1975-10-7
General notes: Tussen 35-45 cm hoog.
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Barcode: PRE0049119-0 Collector(s) & number: Jeppe, T, TRV 33401 | --
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2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Orchidaceae Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1890-1958
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Orchidaceae Kurzweil, HIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1999
1981
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Taxonomic studies in the Disinae. V: A revision of the genus Monadenia. Linder, HPBothalia 13(3 & 4)339-363
No results found for Disa cernua (Thunb.) Sw.
Status and criteria
VU
Assessor(s)
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