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<mods:title>The genus Disperis (Orchidaceae) in Madagascar, the Comores, the Mascarenes and the Seychelles</mods:title>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[714,751,445,471]" pageId="24" pageNumber="79">18.</emphasis>
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Bosser &amp; la Croix
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, 
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masoalensi P.J. Cribb &amp; la Croix 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="79">sed foliis hastatis distincte petiolatis, inflorescentia 4-5- flora, petalis linearibus, labello carnoso trilobato, lobis laterilibus erectis pubescentibus lobo medio lanceolato pendenti glabro ornato bene distinguenda.</emphasis>
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. — 
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1924bis,
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, massif of Manongarivo, 
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(holo-, 
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!, photo 
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. Known only from the 
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collection.
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Terrestrial herb c. 
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long. Flower colour not known; pedicel and ovary 
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long. Dorsal sepal 10 × 
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but divided at about halfway along into 2 branches, then sharply bent down to the front and bearing an obtuse, glabrous, linguiform, convex appendage 
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long. — 
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DISTRIBUTION. — 
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; endemic. HABITAT. — In the understorey of humid forest at intermediate elevation.
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This species has only been collected once. It resembles 
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in the shape of the flowers and the morphology of the lip, but the appendage is completely glabrous and is borne on a glabrous stalk. The lateral sepals appear to be free almost to the base. But this character needs to be confirmed. On the label on the 
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specimen, PERRIER DE LA BÂTHIE commented that it approaches 
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), but in that species the terminal appendage of the lip is considerably smaller and bears a short, dense indumentum except on the basal extremity.
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Fig. 11. — 
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, flowering plant; 
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, dorsal sepal; 
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, lateral sepal; 
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, petal; 
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, column and lip, side view; 
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, lip; 
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, rostellum; 
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, pollinia granules. (
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P).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,188,537,563]" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">19.</emphasis>
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Bosser &amp; la Croix
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, 
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disciferae H. Perrier 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">sed foliis multo reductis, inflorescentia 2-5-flora, galea longiora quam latiora, labello trilobo, lobo medio unguiculato ovato ad basin umbonato satis differt.</emphasis>
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. — 
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, district of 
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P!, photo K!).
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A very slender terrestrial herb 
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high. Stem slender violet. Leaves 2-3, alternate, sessile or rarely with a very short, 
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long petiole, the lowest leaf in the lower half of the stem, 1.8-3.6 × 
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, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acute. Inflorescence 2-5-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acute, 
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long, leaf-like. Flowers rose pink, the petals striped with violet; pedicel and ovary 
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long. Dorsal sepal 7.5 × 
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, linear; lateral sepals 
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in diameter, papillose in the centre, with a protuberance where the blade joins the stipe. Rostellum with short arms. — 
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Fig. 12. — 
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:
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, flowering plant; 
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, flower; 
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, hood; 
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, dorsal sepal; 
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, lateral sepal; 
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. petal; 
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, lip. (A-F, 
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, P; G, 
<emphasis box="[933,1043,1459,1476]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">Bosser 7951,</emphasis>
P).
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DISTRIBUTION. — 
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; endemic.
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HABITAT. — In humus in shade in moist forest, edge of forest in shade of small trees in deep leaf litter; 
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.
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MATERIAL STUDIED. — 
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:
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7951
</emphasis>
, forest of 
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, 
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, 
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(
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!); 
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<collectingCounty box="[768,999,1591,1615]" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">Botoalina in Rés. Nat.</collectingCounty>
3758
</emphasis>
, Rés. Nat. no. 3, Ambatosoratra, Ambatondrazaka, 
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</date>
(
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!); 
<emphasis box="[714,784,1641,1665]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">
<collectionCode box="[714,726,1642,1665]" country="South Africa" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:14647" name="University of the Witwatersrand" pageId="26" pageNumber="81" type="Herbarium">J</collectionCode>
. &amp; 
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</emphasis>
</materialsCitation>
<emphasis box="[785,789,1641,1664]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[797,971,1641,1665]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:4B019107A33CFFC7FD58FE5DFCEEF949:C67776CAA33EFFC3FC8FF98AFCE0F94B" box="[797,884,1642,1665]" country="Madagascar" county="Ambilobe Distr." municipality="Ankazobe Distr." name="Hermans" pageId="26" pageNumber="81">Hermans</location>
13-5/10
</emphasis>
, 
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, 
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, 
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<elevation box="[220,299,167,192]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.45" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" unit="m" value="1450.0">1450 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
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<collectingDate box="[309,411,167,192]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" value="2001-05">May 2001</collectingDate>
</date>
(
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!); 
<emphasis box="[468,631,167,192]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<collectorName box="[468,555,168,192]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Humbert</collectorName>
25754,
</emphasis>
massif of 
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, 
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, high 
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, 
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, 
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</date>
(
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!, 
<collectionCode box="[251,297,244,268]" country="USA" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15859" name="Missouri Botanical Garden" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">MO</collectionCode>
, 
<collectionCode box="[307,325,244,268]" country="France" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15763" name="Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">P</collectionCode>
!)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="27.[151,684,321,716]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
This species recalls 
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<emphasis box="[396,536,321,348]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">D. humblotii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">D. saxicola</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in its habit. It is distinguished by its much smaller and narrower, sessile leaves and by the terminal appendage of its lip in the form of a flat elliptic or suborbicular plate having at its base a rounded protuberance. The lip appendage bears some resemblance to that of the African species 
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<emphasis box="[232,356,536,561]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">D. togoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but the latter is a more slen- der plant with larger flowers and leaves, and with the lateral sepals joined at the base for a quarter to half of their length. It also resembles 
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<emphasis box="[151,302,659,685]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">D. katangensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but that, too, has the lateral sepals partly joined.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,187,782,808]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">20.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="P.J. Cribb &amp; la Croix" authorityName="P. J. Cribb &amp; la Croix" authorityYear="2002" box="[194,679,781,808]" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Disperis" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="masoalensis" status="sp. nov.">
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P.J. Cribb &amp; la Croix
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[194,281,811,837]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="27.[151,685,870,996]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<emphasis box="[177,250,870,894]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Affinis</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="Bosser &amp; la Croix" authorityName="Bosser &amp; la Croix" authorityYear="2002" box="[260,655,870,894]" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Disperis" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bathiei">Disperis bathiei Bosser &amp; la Croix</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[666,684,870,893]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">et</emphasis>
D. ankarensi H. Perrier 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">sed floribis majoribus, sepalis lateralibus fere ecalcaratis quam sepalo dorsali duplo longioribus, petalis undulatis, labello papilloso, lobis lateralibus incurvatis, lobo medio lanceolato deflexo satis differt.</emphasis>
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. — 
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Schatz, 
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, 
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&amp; 
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3380
</emphasis>
, 
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, 
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, Masoala Peninsula, 
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, 
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K!; iso-, MO, P!).
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<paragraph blockId="27.[151,684,1180,1667]" lastBlockId="27.[714,1247,168,409]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
Slender terrestrial herb 
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tall. Stems slender reddish. Leaves 2, alternate, narrowly ovate, rounded at base, 25-32 × 
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, green, the lower with a short petiole 
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long. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered; bracts 
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long. Flowers pale pink inside, whitish tinged with pink on the outside; pedicel and ovary 
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long. Dorsal sepal and petals forming a hood c. 
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long; dorsal sepal lanceolate, acute, 10 × 
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; lateral sepals deflexed, joined for about half their length, obliquely ovate, obtuse, 
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long, 
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wide across the middle where they are joined, shallowly concave at about half way along mid-vein. Petals obliquely ovate, obtuse to rounded at the apex, 10 × 
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long; rostellar arms porrect, clavate, 
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long; anther loculi parallel; pollinia clavate, sectile. — 
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, 
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<materialsCitation country="Madagascar" elevation="25" location="Growing" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" specimenCount="25">
DISTRIBUTION. — 
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; endemic. HABITAT. — 
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in moss on top of boulders in river-bed; sea level- 
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MATERIAL STUDIED. — 
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3424
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, 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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(
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!, 
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!, 
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!, 
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, 
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)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1986-10-13" collectionCode="R, S, E, MO, P, TAN" collectorName="Lowry &amp; Rakotozafy &amp; Nicholl &amp; Ampanga" country="Madagascar" location="Maroantsetra" municipality="Hiaraka" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" specimenCount="1">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<collectorName box="[1020,1089,639,662]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Lowry</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName box="[1102,1217,640,664]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Rakotozafy</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName box="[714,785,665,689]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Nicholl</collectorName>
4104
</emphasis>
, trail along 
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<collectionCode box="[1079,1100,664,687]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">R</collectionCode>
., c. 
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<collectionCode box="[1206,1218,665,689]" country="Sweden" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15668" name="Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">S</collectionCode>
of 
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, 
<collectionCode box="[812,827,690,713]" country="United Kingdom" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15670" name="Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">E</collectionCode>
of 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:4B019107A33CFFC7FD58FE5DFCEEF949:C67776CAA33FFFC2FCF3FD52FC7AFD03" box="[865,1006,690,713]" country="Madagascar" municipality="Hiaraka" name="Maroantsetra" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Maroantsetra</location>
, NW coast of Masoala Peninsula, 
<date box="[822,958,716,740]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" value="1986-10-13">
<collectingDate box="[822,958,716,740]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" value="1986-10-13">13 Oct. 1986</collectingDate>
</date>
(
<collectionCode box="[972,1018,716,740]" country="USA" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15859" name="Missouri Botanical Garden" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">MO</collectionCode>
, 
<collectionCode box="[1030,1048,716,740]" country="France" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15763" name="Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">P</collectionCode>
!, 
<collectionCode box="[1063,1119,716,740]" country="Madagascar" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13842" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13842" name="Parc de Tsimbazaza" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">TAN</collectionCode>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1992-10-31" collectionCode="K, MO, P, TAN" collectorName="Schatz &amp; van der Werff &amp; Gray &amp; Razafimandimbison &amp; Masoala Peninsula" country="Madagascar" elevation="13" location="Toamasina" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Toamasina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<collectorName box="[1137,1201,716,740]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Schatz</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName pageId="27" pageNumber="82">van der Werff</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName box="[846,899,740,763]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Gray</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName box="[948,1168,741,765]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Razafimandimbison</collectorName>
3380
</emphasis>
, 
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, 
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, 
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</quantity>
, 
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<collectingDate box="[1114,1247,766,790]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" value="1992-10-31">31 Oct. 1992</collectingDate>
</date>
(
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!, 
<collectionCode box="[757,803,792,816]" country="USA" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15859" name="Missouri Botanical Garden" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">MO</collectionCode>
, 
<collectionCode box="[813,831,792,816]" country="France" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15763" name="Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">P</collectionCode>
!, 
<collectionCode box="[845,901,792,816]" country="Madagascar" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13842" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13842" name="Parc de Tsimbazaza" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="Herbarium">TAN</collectionCode>
)
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="27.[714,1247,873,1329]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
Known only from three collections, this is a distinct species with one or two large pink and white flowers borne on a small plant. It is allied to 
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<emphasis box="[743,849,965,992]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">D. bathiei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
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<emphasis box="[902,1043,965,992]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">D. ankarensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It differs from the former in its ovate, very shortly petiolate leaves, fewer, larger flowers in which the lateral sepals are fused almost to their mid-point and have the shallowest of spurs in the centre, broader undulate petals, and lip in which the mid-lobe is sessile and the side lobes are incurved and papillose rather than erect and pubescent. From the latter it differs in its larger flowers in which the scarcely saccate lateral sepals are much longer and larger than the dorsal sepal, the undulate petals, and papillose rather than villose lip.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="27.[714,1246,1394,1451]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[714,751,1395,1421]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">21.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="la Croix &amp; P.J. Cribb" authorityName="la Croix &amp; P. J. Cribb" authorityYear="2002" box="[757,1200,1394,1421]" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Disperis" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bosseri" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[757,945,1395,1421]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Disperis bosseri</emphasis>
la Croix &amp; P.J. Cribb
</taxonomicName>
, 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="27" pageNumber="82" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="85" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="27.[714,1247,1483,1558]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<emphasis box="[740,802,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Affinis</emphasis>
<taxonomicName box="[808,888,1484,1508]" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Disperis" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Disperis</taxonomicName>
tripetaloidei Thouars 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">sed foliis parvis perfoliatis, calcare sepalorum latiorum cylindraceo, labello glabro pandurato bene distinguenda.</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="27.[714,1248,1591,1666]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1957-02" collectionCode="TYPUS" country="Madagascar" county="Faratsiho" elevation="2400" location="Bosser" municipality="Ambatolampy" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="holotype">
<typeStatus box="[740,805,1591,1614]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">TYPUS</typeStatus>
. — 
<emphasis box="[854,987,1591,1615]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:4B019107A33CFFC7FD58FE5DFCEEF949:C67776CAA33FFFC2FCC4F9D7FC05F984" box="[854,913,1591,1614]" country="Madagascar" county="Faratsiho" municipality="Ambatolampy" name="Bosser" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Bosser</location>
10869
</emphasis>
, 
<collectingCountry box="[1003,1126,1591,1615]" name="Madagascar" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Madagascar</collectingCountry>
, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:4B019107A33CFFC7FD58FE5DFCEEF949:C67776CAA33FFFC2FBE1F9D7FB4FF985" box="[1139,1243,1591,1615]" country="Madagascar" county="Faratsiho" municipality="Ambatolampy" name="Ankaratra" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Ankaratra</location>
, road from 
<collectingMunicipality box="[824,965,1617,1641]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Ambatolampy</collectingMunicipality>
to 
<collectingCounty box="[1002,1097,1617,1641]" pageId="27" pageNumber="82">Faratsiho</collectingCounty>
, 
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<elevation box="[1109,1191,1616,1641]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.4" pageId="27" pageNumber="82" unit="m" value="2400.0">2400 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<date pageId="27" pageNumber="82" value="1957-02">
<collectingDate pageId="27" pageNumber="82" value="1957-02">Feb. 1957</collectingDate>
</date>
(holo-,
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P!, photo K!).
</paragraph>
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Fig. 13. — 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[243,455,1608,1625]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">
<taxonomicName authorityName="P. J. Cribb &amp; la Croix" authorityYear="2002" box="[243,431,1608,1625]" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Disperis" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="28" pageNumber="83" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="masoalensis">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[243,431,1608,1625]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">Disperis masoalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: A
</emphasis>
, flowering plant; 
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, hood, front view; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[769,783,1608,1625]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">C</emphasis>
, dorsal sepal; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[906,920,1608,1625]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">D</emphasis>
, lateral sepals; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1052,1064,1608,1625]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">E</emphasis>
, petal; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1127,1138,1608,1625]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">F</emphasis>
, column and lip, side view; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[276,290,1629,1646]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">G</emphasis>
, column and lip, front view; 
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, column and lip, back view; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[806,812,1629,1646]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">I</emphasis>
, lip; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[856,866,1629,1646]" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">J</emphasis>
, pollinarium. (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="83">Schatz, van der Werff, Gray &amp; Razafimandimbison 3380,</emphasis>
K).
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Fig. 14. — 
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<taxonomicName authorityName="la Croix &amp; P. J. Cribb" authorityYear="2002" box="[245,388,1629,1646]" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Disperis" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="29" pageNumber="84" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bosseri">
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: A
</emphasis>
, flowering plant; 
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, flower; 
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, hood, side view; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[814,828,1629,1646]" pageId="29" pageNumber="84">D</emphasis>
, dorsal sepal, side view; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1042,1054,1629,1646]" pageId="29" pageNumber="84">E</emphasis>
, lateral sepal; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1178,1189,1629,1646]" pageId="29" pageNumber="84">F</emphasis>
, petal; 
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,165,1650,1667]" pageId="29" pageNumber="84">G</emphasis>
, lip. (
<emphasis box="[210,330,1650,1667]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="84">Bosser 10869,</emphasis>
P).
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Slender terrestrial herb 
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high. Tubers 
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long. Leaves 3, alternate, more or less evenly spaced along the stem, 
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long, ovate to lanceolate, acute, suberect, sessile, clasping the stem. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered; bracts 
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long, oblong, acute. Flowers pale pink; pedicel and ovary 
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long. Dorsal sepal c. 6 × 
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, linear; lateral sepals free to base, divergent, 6-7 × 
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, obliquely ovate, apiculate, with a prominent, obtuse spur 
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long, c. 
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wide. Petals c. 6 × 
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, spathulate, apiculate, adnate to the dorsal sepal and forming a concave hood c. 
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high and 
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deep. Lip with the basal part, ascending, obtriangular, 
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long, attached to the base of the column for 
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, terminal appendage ovate, 5,5-6,5 mm long, rounded or subtruncate at the base which is adorned with a small median subcircular, papillose lobule, obtuse and subtriangular at the tip; the upper face having in the basal half two slender erect wings with a thick and convex median zone between them, margins finely papillose towards the summit. Rostellar arms scarious, rigid, linear, a little dilated and rounded at the apex, 
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long. — 
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DISTRIBUTION. — 
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This species is only known from the 
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collection. 
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also resembles 
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Schltr.
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, known from 
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and 
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.
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P.J. Cribb &amp; la Croix
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<emphasis box="[177,244,1392,1416]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="85">Affinis</emphasis>
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lanceolato Bosser &amp; la Croix 
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D. tripetaloidei (Thou.) Lindl. 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="85">sed sepalis latioribus usque ad medium adnatis, petalis falcatis, truncatis, labello trilobato lobis lateralibus carnosis villosis et lobo medio spathulato appendiculatoque satis differt.</emphasis>
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. — 
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Malcomber, Hutcheon, 
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&amp; 
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1413
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, 
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, 
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, Antsatrotro
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, 
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of summit, 
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MO!, photo K!).
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A small, terrestrial herb up to 
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tall. Stem slender bearing three leaves in upper half. Leaves 3, alternate, suberect to spreading, ovate, obtuse, the largest 1.8 × 
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, the upper two progressively smaller, green with purple markings. Inflorescence terminal, c. 3-flowered; bracts ovate, subacute, 6 × 
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. Flowers clustered, white with purple dots; pedicel and ovary up to 
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long. Dorsal sepal concave, linearoblong, acute, 4 × 
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, forming a hood with the petals. Lateral sepals deflexed, obliquely spathulate, obtuse or apiculate, united in basal half to form a narrow claw, 9.5-10 × 
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. Petals adnate to the dorsal sepal along inner margin, falcate, oblong, truncate, 5 × 
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. Lip 3-lobed, 
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long and wide when spread; side lobes fleshy, arcuate, truncate, villose in apical part; mid-lobe spathulate with an undulate margin to the apical lamina. Column short, 
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long including the clavate rostellar arms. — 
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DISTRIBUTION. — 
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; endemic. HABITAT. — On a rotten branch on floor in ridge-top montane forest; 
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is known only 
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collection which comprises two flowering plants. This small orchid is apparently allied to 
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<emphasis box="[714,885,1057,1084]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="85">D. lanceolata</emphasis>
Bosser &amp; la Croix
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and to 
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(Thou.) Lindl. It
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differs from the former in having slightly larger leaves, a shorter inflorescence, and flowers in which the lateral sepals are united to the middle to form a narrow claw, somewhat truncate petals, and a lip in which the side lobes are as long as the spathulate mid-lobe and villose. The latter differs in having larger more acute leaves and the flower which has free lateral sepals and a lip with a broad hairy base and a narrow, rather than spathulate mid-lobe. 
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<emphasis box="[1034,1247,1395,1421]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="85">Disperis humblotii</emphasis>
Rchb.
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flowers that resemble those of 
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<emphasis box="[714,877,1456,1483]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="85">D. falcatipetala</emphasis>
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but the former always has a petiolate lowermost leaf. It is also close to the tropical African 
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<emphasis box="[851,992,1517,1544]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="85">D. johnstonii</emphasis>
Rolfe
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but that usually has two larger leaves and flowers with a shorter broader claw to the united lateral sepals and a lip in which the mid-lobe is puberulous and has a central umbo.
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