Disa cooperi long spurs

On this Disa cooperi spike the flowers angle up from the olive-green erect stalk (although they face down), each ovary enveloped by its green bract that attenuates to a narrowly pointed tip, soon withered.

The open flowers have white dorsal sepals with purple speckles only on the upper parts of the spurs. Spreading, lateral sepals are also white with a dash of green inside their slightly oblique tips.

Those sepals towards the top of the spike still close the faces of the flowers in funny-looking buds with elaborately peaked hats, the spurs that are announcing imminent opening. When the lateral sepals close the face, the lip is hidden inside; being a petal of the inner whorl of corolla segments, it is carried inside the outer whorl of three sepals (Pooley, 1998; Manning, 2009).