Species within a genus

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DISA (La, G)
Disa (Le)
Family: ORCHIDACEAE

dives, dis, = rich, sumptuous, costly, splendid, precious.
Dis, Dios, ΔΙΣ, = Zeus.
(Various derivations are proposed. The most likely is in commemoration of Disa**, a legendary Swedish Queen.)

(ld, LS, Le)

Disa harveiana var. harveiana (La)
Lilac Disa (PS)
Location: (K)

For William Henry Harvey (1811-1866),**renowned Irish-born botanist, algologist and pioneer of South African systematic botany, Colonial Treasurer-General of the Cape Colony, Keeper of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, professor of botany to the Royal Dublin Society and at Trinity College, Dublin, Fellow of the Linnean and Royal Societies;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)