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Disa sankeyi, commonly known as Sankey's disa, is a perennial plant and geophyte belonging to the genus Disa. The plant is native to Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, the Free State, and the Eastern Cape and occurs in the Drakensberg at altitudes of 2400–3000 m. The population in the Eastern Cape is threatened by crop cultivation, plantations and overgrazing. The population in KwaZulu-Natal is not threatened.
Wolfsbane Disa · Disa aequiloba · Disa alinae · Disa alticola · Disa amoena · Disa andringitrana · Disa aperta · Kleinkaroo Disa · Disa aristata · Metallic Disa · Orchid · Langeberg Golden Disa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Disa sankeyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
