Disa woodii flowers

    Disa woodii flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    The small Disa woodii flowers are bright yellow, sometimes with an orange tinge on some tepals. The three biggest tepals are the sepals at the back, two laterals spreading slightly downward and the dorsal that forms the hood at the top, including the two smaller lateral petals in its flanks. The slender spur at the back is about 1,5 mm long. The lip or third petal below the flower centre is narrow, projected forward or drooping as in picture.

    There is an alien dry seed with pappus present in picture, blown in by the wind. It has every chance of still travelling further, landing and germinating to a bright future as flowering plant somewhere in the vicinity (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; iNaturalist; https://orchidspecies.com/disawoodii.htm).

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