!Brownleea parviflora Harv. ex Lindl. 1842 Photo by © Cameron & Rhoda McMaster and their African Bulbs - South African Orchid Page

Full sun Cool Cold Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name The Small Flowered Brownleea

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Cameroon, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Province, Natal, Swaziland, Transvaal and Madagascar in grasslands in full sun at elevations of sea level to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3 [5], narrowly lanceolate leaves that blooms in the summer through early fall on an erect, cylindrical, densely 20 to 60 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Brownleea alpina (Hook.f.) N.E.Br.1898; Brownleea apetala (Kraenzl.) N.E.Br. 1898; Brownleea gracilis Schltr. 1915; Brownleea nelsonii Rolfe 1913; Brownleea perrieri Schltr. 1924; Brownleea transvaalensis Schltr. 1924; Brownleea woodii Rolfe 1913; Disa alpina Hook.f. 1864; Disa apetala Kraenzl. 1895; Disa parviflora (Harv. ex Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1881; Disa preussii Kraenzl. 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as B perrieri drawing ok; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as B alpina; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as B nelsonii; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Rudolf Sclechter Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as B perrrierii; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; The Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as B apetala; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as B alpina; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as B perierii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as B parviflora; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as B trannsvaalensis; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide; A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa Bytebier 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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