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Orchid Species: Disperis togoensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Disperis togoensis is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1905.
ORIGIN: Found in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaire, Uganda Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique at elevations of 900 to 1050 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with densely hairy, elongate-ovoid to ellipsoidal tubers giving rise to 1 to 3, alternate, sessile, ovate to almost round, obtuse to acute, cordate, crimson-purple beneath, white venation leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to acute bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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