Disa biflora(L.) Druce

WFO wfo-0000944296 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Disa biflora, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. a Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-08-29 / obs. 156038314
Disa biflora, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 91222082
Disa biflora, photographed by James Deacon
fig. c James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 88342487
Disa biflora, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. d Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 155644662
Disa biflora, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15924926
Disa biflora, photographed by linkie
fig. f linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159321231
Disa biflora, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. g Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 155644482
Disa biflora, photographed by Tom Lloyd Evans
fig. h Tom Lloyd Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142947658

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Disa biflora is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Disa biflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Disa satyrioides Bytebier
  • Disa torta (Thunb.) Sw.
  • Gamaria cornuta (L.) Raf.
  • Orchis biflora L.
  • Orchis flexicaulis L.f.
  • Orchis satyrioides L.
  • Satyrium cornutum L.
  • Satyrium tortum Thunb.
  • Schizodium arcuatum Lindl.
  • Schizodium biflorum (L.) T.Durand & Schinz
  • Schizodium cornutum (L.) Schltr.
  • Schizodium satyrioides (L.) Garay
  • Schizodium torta Steud.
  • Schizodium tortum (Thunb.) Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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