Disa baurii white

Disa baurii may sometimes produce an almost white flowering form, in the photo with only some blue in a line down the centre of the lip and upon the back of the dorsal sepal above.

The white fringe of papillae on the margin of the lip of D. baurii differs from some orchid species that bear crests of papillae in the centre of the lip.

The beige spur at the top of each flower shows its curve upon the bud on the left. The ovary (below the flower and serving also as its pedicel), has about the same colour as the spur on flowers of the inflorescence in picture.

The column is white and erect in the flower centre above the lip. One brown and pointed floral bract is visible, folding around an ovary. The diameter of a D. baurii flower is about 2,5 cm (http://orchids.wikia.com; iSpot; www.zimbabweflora.co.zw).