Disperis Anthoceros Group
Description:
Glabrous herbs. Leaves normally opposite or subopposite. Hood deep or with pronounced spur, petals frequently with large basal anterior lobe and therefore appearing bilobed, lateral sepals free or extensively fused; lip claw mostly very long and slender, blade simple and ecallose, often surrounded by hairs, appendage mostly as two pendent or forward-curved and deeply bifurcate lobes, rarely of many pendent lobes or entire and apically dentate. Rostellum arms linearspathulate, erect or suberect, usually elongate and only rarely short (D. nemorosa); stigma lateral, mostly narrowly lanceolate at base of rostellum arms.
Distribution:
Subtropical and tropical Africa; one species ranging into Madagascar.
Species:
References:
World Checklist of Monocotyledons. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots/ accessed 15/11/2020
