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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Disperis

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Orchidaceae

About 84 species (Africa, Madagascar, East Asia), with 30 species native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Disperis anthoceros

Disperis bodkinii

 

Disperis bolusiana

Disperis capensis

Disperis cardiophora

 

Disperis circumflexa

 

Disperis concinna

 

Disperis cooperi

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Disperis cucullata

 

Disperis dicerochila

Recorded from Zimbabwe. 

Disperis disaeformis

 

Disperis fanniniae

 

Disperis johnstonii

 

Disperis leuconeura

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Disperis lindleyana

Disperis macowanii

 

Disperis micrantha

 

Disperis mozambicensis

Recorded from Mozambique.

 

Disperis oxyglossa

 

Disperis paludosa

Disperis purpurata

 

Disperis reichenbachiana

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Disperis renibractea

 

Disperis stenoplectron

 

Disperis thorncroftii

 

Disperis tysonii

 

Disperis villosa

 

Disperis virginalis

 

Disperis wealei

 

Disperis woodii