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Peter Linder
" Sid Cywes is a retired Paediatric Surgeon, having worked for several decades at the Red Cross Children's Hospital and University of Cape Town , but has devoted his spare time energies to the cult...view more" Sid Cywes is a retired Paediatric Surgeon, having worked for several decades at the Red Cross Children's Hospital and University of Cape Town , but has devoted his spare time energies to the cultivation and hybridisation of Disas, creating and publishing, with his wife, Marlene, many of the outstanding cultivars illustrated here."
"Eric Harley worked from 1973 to 2004 at the University of Cape Town as a Chemical Pathologist with a particular interest in human, animal, and plant Molecular Genetics. He is also a grower of Disas with an especial interest in the cliff-face Disas."
“Peter Linder completed a PhD on the taxonomy of Disa and its relatives at the Bolus Herbarium at the University of Cape Town. Continuing research on southern African orchids, focusing on the terrestrial groups, culminated in the publication, with Hubert Kurzweil, of the “Orchids of Southern Africa”. From 2001 he has held a teaching position at the University of Zurich.”view less