Disa forficaria Bolus

Plants up to 500 mm tall; stems often with a sheath of old leaf fibres basally; radical leaves linear, erect, reaching the inflorescence base, cauline leaves lax, narrowly ovate, 20-40 mm long. Inflorescences lax, c. 100 mm long; bracts shorter than the ovaries, dry. Flowers hyper-resupinate, sepals greenish-red, petals and lip deep maroon; ovary twisted through 360°. Median sepal erect to reflexed at anthesis, deeply concave, orbicular, apiculate, 8-12 mm in diameter; spur absent; latªeral sepals patent, narrowly ovate, acute to shortly acuminate, 8-12 mm long. Petals with basal half lorate, reflexed parallel to the anther, 4-6 mm long, apical half aciculate, geniculately bent forªwards, terete, acute, tomentose. Lip patent, reni-form, 4-5 mm long x c. 6 mm wide, distal margin somewhat swollen and shortly villose. Anther horizontal; stigma pedicellate; rostellum small.