Disa baurii purple

Flower colours of Disa baurii include this purple and bluish form with bright patches.

The stripes upon the corolla remind of the Swedish legend of the young woman, Disa, who had to approach the king neither dressed nor naked; and arrived in a fishnet. Her story was used by Peter Bergius, Swedish botanist who first described and named the Disa genus.

Inside the hood, the dorsal sepal of the flower, the pointed, purple upper lobe of one lateral petal asks to be noted against the white background. This pair of small, two-lobed lateral petals reside against the inside walls of the dorsal sepal.

In the lower flower parts, the two shallowly concave lateral sepals flank the remaining petal, the protruding lip. The lip of a D. baurii flower has a busy surface, covered in numerous thinly fleshy protrusions that grow from its margin (http://orchids.wikia.com; iSpot; www.zimbabweflora.co.zw).