Disa aequiloba Summerh.

A terrestrial herb 2–4 dm. high, glabrous except for the roots.. Tubers ellipsoid, 1.5–2 cm. long, 1 cm, in diameter, shortly tomentose.. Roots slender, flexuous, sparsely pubescent.. Sterile stems short, with several overlapping basal sheaths, 1–2-leaved at the apex; leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblance-olate, over 7 cm. long, up to 8 mm. broad.. Flowering stems slender, covered by the overlapping leaves; leaves 10–12, the lowermost short and sheathlike, the remainder erect, adpressed to and sheathing the stem but with the apices often somewhat recurved, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the largest 3.5–5.5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, lower ones marked or spotted red.. Inflorescence 3.5–11 cm. long, 2–2.5 cm. in diameter, rather densely 12-to many-flowered.. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5–2.7 cm. long, the lower ones overtopping the flowers.. Flowers suberect or curved outwards, cream to magenta with reddish or darker markings; ovary with pedicel almost straight, 10–12 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal bent forwards, broadly obovate, rounded, convex, spurred below the middle, ± 5 mm. long, 4–5 mm. broad, the spur pendent, 3.5–4.7 mm. long; laterals spreading, broadly elliptical, obtuse, 5–6.5 mm. long, nearly 4 mm. broad.. Petals erect, obovate-flabellate, shortly 2-lobed in the upper part, apex ± truncate, irregularly toothed, altogether 4.5–5 mm. long, ± 4 mm. broad; lobes broad, rounded or truncate, equal in length but the front lobe rather broader than the back one.. Lip pendent, linear, ± 5.5 mm. long, 0.5–1 mm. broad, 1-nerved.. Anther erect, 3–4 mm. high.. Stigma orbicular, 1.5 mm. in diameter.

It is a tropical plant.