Disa tripetaloides

{{Short description|Species of orchid}}

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| taxon = Disa tripetaloides

| authority = (L.f.) N.E.Br.{{cite web

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| title = Plant Name Details

| access-date = 2022-10-13

| author = International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI)

| author-link = IPNI

| work = International Plant Names Index

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| synonyms =

• Orchis tripetaloides L.f. (Basionym)
• Satyrium excelsum Thunb.
• Disa excelsa (Thunb.) Sw.
• Disa venosa Lindl.
• Disa falcata Schltr.
• Herschelia excelsa (Thunb.) Kraenzl.
• Herschelianthe excelsa (Thunb.) Rauschert

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Disa tripetaloides is a species of orchid that grows along the edges of streams in South Africa.{{cite book |author=Wodrich, Karsten |year=1997 |isbn=9054106506 |title=Growing South African Indigenous Orchids |pages=59 |publisher=CRC Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SJIefiwVTPQC&dq=%22Disa+tripetaloides%22&pg=PA59 }}{{cite POWO |id=630277-1 |title=Disa tripetaloides (L.f.) N.E.Br. |access-date=13 October 2022 }}{{cite web | title=Name - Disa tripetaloides (L.f.) N.E.Br. | website=Tropicos | date= | url=https://tropicos.org/name/23505364 | access-date=2022-10-13}} This is one of the smaller species in the genus Disa in the section Disa. There are populations that come from the winter-rainfall areas of South Africa, and summer-rainfall areas of South Africa.

It is also one of the four commonly grown species of Disa in cultivation. The other three being Disa aurata, Disa cardinalis, and Disa uniflora. Disa tripetaloides is able to reproduce sexually and asexually. Asexual reproduction occurs by means of creating offshoots along the base of the plant and on stolons.