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Disa nyassana is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1915. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Disa zombica.
ORIGIN: Found in, Burundi, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in montane grasslands in full sun at elevations of 1200 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial a sterile shoot with conduplicate, linear-elliptic, acute leaves and a fertile shoot with imbricate cauline, ovate-lanceolate, acute, basal shorter, red spotted or barred leavesa that blooms in the late summer on an erect, terminal, 3.6 to 6.4 [to 9 to 16 cm] long, densely 10 to 25 flowered inflorescence.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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