Disa bracteata

Disa bracteata, sometimes called the meadow disa, is a slender, erect perennial growing from a tuber to heights varying from 2,5 cm to 30 cm, occasionally 50 cm. The erect, linear-lanceolate leaves growing on the lower stems become up to 12 cm long. The leaves sometimes spread a little, their tips curving in.

This species used to be called Monadenia micrantha for a long time, later M. bracteata.

The distribution of D. bracteata covers the southwestern parts of the Western Cape from Clanwilliam in the north and continues coastally into the Eastern Cape to around Grahamstown. The plant grows in coastal fynbos from sea level to elevations around 1700m, as well as in the slightly more inland renosterveld (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; Manning, 2007; Andrew, 2012).