Disa micropetala Schltr.

Plants 60-300 mm tall; basal sheath(s) hyaline, obtuse; leaves linear-acuminate, numerous, imbricate, up to 120 mm long. Inflorescences dense, numerous-flowered; bracts overtopping the flowers at the base of the inflorescence but as tall as the flowers at its apex. Flowers minute, with median sepal white mottled pale pink and lateral sepals and lip very dark purple to beetroot red from a white base. Median sepal subglobose, 2-4 mm in diameter, rear truncate, mouth circular, c. 2 mm in diameter; spur pendent and decurved, filiform, c. 1 mm long; lateral sepals oblong, obtuse, 2-4 mm long. Petals erect next to rostellum, falcate, c. 2 mm long, basal anticous lobe semi-circular to oblong, flanking the stigma. Lip lorate, fleshy, c. 2.5 mm long. Anther horizontal; stigma tripulvi-nate, horizontal; lateral rostellum lobe oblong, enªclosing the viscidia.