Disa stachyoides flowers

The short spike of small, pinkish purple to mauve Disa stachyoides flowers have their oblong ovaries sheathed in broad, green and purple bracts behind the corollas. The ovaries are angled up and outwards, holding the corollas at their tips as if they were flower stalks.

The small, white lip in the centre of each flower is conspicuous, tipped mauve. The two lateral sepals flanking the lip are angled downwards, obliquely oblong and concave as seen from the front, ending in pouch-like tips. The dorsal sepal above the male and female floral parts is roundly hood-shaped, positioned as if protectively over the rest of the flower. Two tiny petals are present laterally inside the cover of the hood. The spur is broad and flat, angling outwards almost horizontally from the back of the dorsal sepal. It is from 2 mm to 6 mm long.

The outer three tepals, the sepals are markedly dominant in size and appearance, the inner three, the petals inside them are small (Pooley, 1998; Onderstall, 1984; Trauseld, 1969; iNaturalist).