Disa buchenaviana
Translingual
Proper noun
- A taxonomic species within the family Orchidaceae – a species of orchids native to Central Madagascar.
- Synonyms: Disa rutenbergiana, Satyrium calceatum
- 1895 [1881], Alfred Russel Wallace, Island Life, or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates (overall work in English), Part II., Chapter XIX. Ancient Continental Islands: The Madagascar Group, page 440:
- Disa Buchenaviana, Commelina madagascarica, and Tachiadenus platypterus are fine blue-flowered plants, while the superb orchid Angræcum sesquipedale, Vinca rosea, Euphorbia splendens, and Stephanotis floribunda, have been long cultivated in our hot-houses.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Asparagales – order; Orchidaceae – family; Orchidoideae – subfamily; Diseae – tribe; Disinae – subtribe; Disa – genus
Further reading
- Disa (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Disa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Disa (Orchidaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Disa buchenaviana on Wikidata.Wikidata
- Disa buchenaviana protologue at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Disa buchenaviana at International Plant Name Index
- Disa buchenaviana at Plants of the World Online
- Disa buchenaviana at Tropicos
- Disa buchenaviana at The World Flora Online