Disa racemosa L.F.

Plants slender, erect, to 1 m tall; radical leaves 3-10, subconduplicate, narrowly lanceolate, up to 100 (-200) mm long, cauline leaves lax, narrowly lanceolate, completely sheathing or grading into the radical leaves and the floral bracts. Infloresªcences lax, 2-8 (-12)-flowered; bracts about as long as and enclosing the ovaries. Flowers resupiªnate, pink or very pale pink, veins darker, petals and lip white to yellow, petals with horizontal purple bars. Median sepal erect, obtuse, galea dish-shaped, 17-24 x 13-20 x 5-8 mm deep; spur subobsolete, laterally flattened, rounded; lateral sepals patent, oblong to broadly elliptic, obtuse, flat, 15-25 mm long, apiculi c. 1 mm long. Petals flanking the anther, apex curved over it, obliquely narrowly obovate rhomboid, broadly fused basally to rostellum, 10-15 mm long. Lip patent, linear, c. 10 mm long. Anther horizontal; stigma sessile, equally tripulvinate; lateral rostellum lobes canaªliculate, central lobe reflexed.