Disa saxicola flowers

The flowers of Disa saxicola are white, sometimes pale pink, with dark purple spots on the sepals (the hood or dorsal and laterals). The lateral petals inside the hood are white, as is the narrow, oblong, forwardly protruding or porrect lip.

The hood is angled upwards and outwards, oblong in shape with a reduced opening, the segments margin curving in around the lateral petals and column. The spur growing from the back of the dorsal sepal is cylindrical and curves downwards very slightly over the ovary.

The pair of lateral sepals carried lower than the lip are broadly oblong to slightly obovate and shallowly concave with tiny, mucronately pointed tips. Flowers reach about 1 cm in diameter (Pooley, 1998; http://orchids.wikia.com).