Disa zuluensis flower

The scented flowers of Disa zuluensis grow in a fairly dense spike. From five to twenty flowers are produced. The pale pinkish lilac flowers have darker lilac spots scattered along some parts of the sepals.

The median sepal forms a shallow, pointed hood at the top of the flower. The two lateral petals are erect, inside this hood, flanking the flower column at their base and curving in at their pointed tips over the column to each other. Their outer margins are lilac, the rest of their surfaces white or nearly so.

The lateral sepals are ovate, spreading sideways and curving slightly. All three sepals have mucronate, narrowly pointed tips. The lip below is narrow and oblong with slightly irregular margins and paler in colour than the sepals (www.orchidspecies.com).