Disa bifida floral lip

The lip of a Disa bifida flower is said to be fiddle-shaped. It has a broadly elliptic base part that is white, streaked with longitudinal purple lines, mostly rows of dots.

The long, narrow, frontal part or tooth of the lip (if there could be such a thing), is coloured brown, green or purple. It points down between the lateral sepals. This tooth may be 4 mm to 8 mm long.

There is no spur on the lip, as it is the dorsal sepal that is spurred in Disa flowers (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).