Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder (1981:42)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Taxonomic validity unsettled (von Staden, 2006).
Conservation Status
Data Deficient (von Staden, 2006; Raimondo et al., 2009) or Extinct (Hilton-Taylor, 1996; Victor, 2002; Humphreys et al., 2019; Dhanda et al., 2022:808; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1942 (von Staden, 2006)
Best treated as Data Deficient:
"Previously listed as extinct, this species is only recorded from two collections made in 1942 in the Kleinmond area, five days apart, and possibly from the same population. No description or information on the habitat was provided. In spite of the area being comparatively well collected, the species was not found again. Linder (1981), as well as Linder and Kurzweil (1999) are not sure if it is an aberrant form of another species or a unique species, and according to Liltved and Johnson (unpubl.) the area where the taxon was found (Harold Porter Botanical Garden/Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve) is undisturbed and well-protected and therefore plants are unlikely to have gone extinct."
(von Staden, 2006)
Distribution & Habitat
South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 19 May 2024]
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Victor, J. E. (2002). South Africa. In: Golding, J. S. (ed). Southern African plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 14 (pp. 93-120), SABONET, Pretoria.
von Staden, L. (2006). Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version. Accessed on 2025/07/30.