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ORIGIN: Found in Benin, Burkino Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Cape Province, Natal, and Transvaal South Africa in marshes, swamps and seasonally flooded grasslands at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an underground rhizome giving rise to 2 to 4, present at blooming, plicate, erect, linear-lanceolate, leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, usually racemose, erect, 12 to 40 flowered inflorescence with long lasting successively opening, spreading to pendant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).