Disa versicolor, a commanding presence

Disa versicolor may surprise and delight when a strong colony is found flowering in the summer grass as here. Not only the erect floral cylinders rise above the wet grass, but also the erect and curving to spreading leaves that fold in and point out with their slender tips.

The stem leaves are smaller; the three to five big leaves belong to the sterile stem that grows next to the fertile flower stem from the same tuber (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).