Description
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Slender terrestrial herb, 10 - 27 cm. Leaves 2, sub opposite. Inflorescence terminal, 1-4-flowered with leaflike bracts below the ovaries. Flowers white, spotted with green or purple. Dorsal sepal forming a elongate, tubular, spur-like hood.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Disperis anthoceros Rchb. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=117770
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Locally common
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- cc-by-nc
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Disperis anthoceros Rchb. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=117770
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Nigeria, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, zimbabwe and Northwest, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Disperis anthoceros Rchb. f. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=117770
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings