Disa stachyoides spurs

The slightly angled up to horizontal spurs of the Disa stachyoides flowers may be almost as long as the rest of the corolla. The thin spur tubes end in blunt tips that bulge slightly in picture.

The usual purple corolla colour of D. stachyoides is quite pink on this plant. The green and brown coloured ovaries, partly covered by bracts, angle up fairly steeply from their stalk attachments. These angles have not altered lower down on the spike where the corollas of the old flowers have already withered (Pooley, 1998; Onderstall, 1984; Trauseld, 1969; iNaturalist).