Disa uncinata

Disa uncinata, sometimes commonly called the stream disa, is a slender perennial that grows from a tuber to heights between 10 cm and 50 cm. This is one of the more widespread of the Cape disas.

The plant grows three to six leaves that are narrowly lance-shaped and often curve in a sickle-shape.

The distribution of the species is in the Western Cape from the Cederberg and Table Mountain to the Eastern Cape as far as Humansdorp. 

The plants are found in shady, damp spots on rock-faces or among mosses where water drips much of the year. The soils here are sandy, clayey or peaty, the elevation between 100 m and 1850 m. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; iNaturalist; iSpot; http://redlist.sanbi.org).