Disa bracteata

Stout, fleshy terrestrial to 40 cm tall. Leaves 6–10 in a loose rosette, narrow-lanceolate, 30–150 mm long, 10–15 mm wide, tapered, pale green, channelled, reducing in size up stem and passing into floral bracts. Inflorescence a cylindrical spike to 20 cm long, of 30–60 crowded flowers. Flowers small, c. 5 mm across, yellowish with red suffusions, emerging from prominent basal bracts 20–30 mm long. Dorsal sepal ovate, hooded with a pendent basal spur; lateral sepals ovate, divergent or recurved; petals ovate, obliquely erect, margins enclosed by dorsal sepal. Labellum yellow, protruding forward like a tongue, oblong, about 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, decurved. Flowers Oct.–Dec.