Disa porrecta Sw.

Plants grass-like, 200-600 mm tall; basal leaves erect, hysteranthous, linear, up to 300 mm long, often persisting as a fibrous sheath, cauline leaves sheathing, lax to subimbricate, 30-60 mm long. Inflorescences dense, numerous-flowered; bracts dry, as long as or shorter than the ovaries. Flowers facing down at 45°, bright red to scarlet with yellow petals and lip. Median sepal deeply galeate, c. 5 mm tall x 5 mm deep, emarginate; spur cylindrical, often massive, acute, ascending, 20-40 mm long; lateral sepals broadly ovate to obovate, obtuse, concave, 6-8 mm long, apiculi up to 3 mm long. Petals erect next to the rostellum, falcate, lanceolate to oblong, acute, c. 4 mm tall, with a basal anticous lobe flanking the stigma. Lip lanceolate to narrowly oblong, acute to truncate, 7-10 mm long. Anther semi-pendent; stigma pedicellate, flat; lateral rostellum lobes square, small, central lobe inconspicuous.