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Disa aurata

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ10266883 ↗
Source-derived summary

Disa aurata is a species of orchid found in Swellendam area of Cape Province, South Africa at elevations of 0 to 1,000 meters (3,300 ft).

References

External links

UniProt. "Species Disa aurata". Retrieved 2022-10-13.

Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Disa aurata". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Disa aurata” is species of plant. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Disa, aurata and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Disa, aurata and species is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “species of plant” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10266883. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2014.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Disa aurata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.