Disa bracteata

Disa bracteata, sometimes commonly called the meadow disa and the bract disa, is a slender, erect perennial growing from a tuber to heights varying from 2,5 cm to 30 cm, occasionally 50 cm. This species used to be called Monadenia micrantha for a long time, later M. bracteata.

Several erect, linear-lanceolate leaves clasp the lower stems, becoming up to 12 cm long. The leaves sometimes spread a little, their tips curving in.

The species distribution is in the Western Cape from the Cape Peninsula to Clanwilliam and Vredendal in the north and eastwards into the Eastern Cape coastally to around Makhanda (Grahamstown). 

The habitat is coastal fynbos flats and slopes from sea level to elevations around 1700m, as well as in the slightly more inland renosterveld. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Liltved and Johnson, 2012; Manning, 2007; Andrew, 2012; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).