Disa woodii Schltr.

woodii: named after John Medley Wood (1827 - 1915), botanist, founder of the Natal Herbarium and author of various works on the flora of Natal.

Terrestrial herb, up to 70 m tall. Leaves on a separate shoot but not always developing, 3-4, semi-erect, linear, up to 25 cm long. Leaves along the fertile shoot 6-25, narrowly lanceolate, sheathing at the base. Inflorescence cylindric, 3-17 cm long, dense, 80-100-flowered, bracts narrowly ovate, usually as long as the flowers with pointed, reflexed apices. Flowers bright yellow, sometimes tinged orange at the apices of the floral parts. Dorsal sepal erect, elliptic to subobovate, 5-7 mm long with a pendent spur, 1-2.5 mm long arising from the base. Lateral sepals narrowly oblong, 6-7 mm long. Petals narrowly obovate, 4-6 mm long. Lip linear, c. 6 mm long.

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa.