Disinae

{{Short description|A subtribe of flowering plants belonging to the orchid family}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Disa Graminifolia.jpg

| image_caption = Disa graminifolia

| taxon = Disinae

| authority = {{Au|Bentham 1881}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision_ref =

| subdivision = * Disa, including:

• Herschelianthe Benny Bytebier, Dirk U. Bellstedt, and Hans Peter Linder. 2007. "A molecular phylogeny for the large African orchid genus Disa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(1):75-90. {{doi|10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.014}}
• Monadenia
• Schizodium
• Huttonaea
• Pachites

}}

Disinae is a subtribe of orchids that has been differently defined and placed in the two classification systems that are currently in use for orchids. Genera Orchidacearum, which is currently the definitive work on orchid taxonomy, delimits Disinae as consisting of two closely related genera, Disa and Schizodium, and it places Disinae in the mostly African tribe Diseae, along with four other subtribes: Brownleeinae, Huttonaeinae, Coryciinae, and Satyriinae.Alec M. Pridgeon, Phillip J. Cribb, Mark W. Chase, and Finn N. Rasmussen. 1999-2014. Genera Orchidacearum Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-850513-6}} (volume 1), {{ISBN|978-0-19-850710-9}} (volume 2), {{ISBN|978-0-19-850711-6}} (volume 3), {{ISBN|978-0-19-850712-3}} (volume 4), {{ISBN|978-0-19-850713-0}} (volume 5), {{ISBN|978-0-19-964651-7}} (volume 6) In the classification for orchids that was published by Chase et alii in 2015, Schizodium was placed in synonymy under Disa, while Pachites and Huttonaea were transferred to Disinae.Mark W. Chase, Kenneth M. Cameron, John V. Freudenstein, Alec M. Pridgeon, Gerardo A. Salazar, Cássio van den Berg, and André Schuiteman. 2015. "An updated classification of Orchidaceae". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 177(2):151-174. (See External links below). In Genera Orchidacearum, Pachites and Satyrium form the subtribe Satyriinae, and Huttonaea is the sole genus in the subtribe Huttonaeinae. The transfer of Pachites and Huttonaea to Disinae by Chase et alii (2015) was done with considerable doubt, and was based upon uncertainty about the relationships of these two genera. In 2009, a molecular phylogenetic study found only weak statistical support for a sister relationship between Huttonaea and Disa.Richard J. Waterman, Anton Pauw, Timothy G. Barraclough, and Vincent Savolainen. 2009. "Pollinators underestimated: A molecular phylogeny reveals widespread floral convergence in oil-secreting orchids (sub-tribe Coryciinae) of the Cape of South Africa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51(1):100-110. {{doi|10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.020}}.

Disinae was covered, along with the rest of the tribe Diseae, in volume 2 of Genera Orchidacearum, which was published in 2001. Molecular phylogenetic studies published after 1999 showed that Diseae was paraphyletic over another tribe, Orchideae.Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, Alec M. Pridgeon, Paul Kores, H. P. Linder, Hubert Kurzweil, and Mark W. Chase. 1999. "Molecular phylogenetics of Diseae (Orchidaceae): a contribution from nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences". American Journal of Botany 86(6):887-899. [http://www.amjbot.org/content/86/6/887.full.pdf+html PDF]{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Consequently, Chase et alii (2015) combined Diseae and Orchideae into a larger version of Orchideae and included Disinae as one of its subtribes.

The subtribe Disinae was erected by George Bentham in 1881,Disinae in International Plant Names Index. (see External links below).George Bentham. 1881. page 288. In: "Notes on Orchideae". The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 18(110):281-367. (See External links below). in preparation for the publication of a new classification of orchids in the 1883 edition of Genera Plantarum (Bentham & Hooker).George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker. 1883. Genera Plantarum (Bentham & Hooker) volume 3, part 2, pages 460-488. L.Reeve & Co.; Williams & Norgate: London, UK. (See External links below). Using the suffixes of that time for taxonomic rank, he called it subtribe "Diseae" of his now obsolete tribe Ophrydeae.

File:Disa uniflora (21281989474).jpg|Disa uniflora

File:Pachites bodkinii 15775325.jpg|Pachites bodkinii

File:Huttonaea grandiflora (Giants Castle Game Reserve, South Africa) (cropped).jpg|Huttonaea grandiflora