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ORIGIN: Found in Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Natal and Transvaal South Africa by streams, rivers, dams, swamps, marshes and in open grasslands and forests in deep shade at elevations of sea-level to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a fleshy underground rhizome giving rise to 3 to 5, erect, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, narrowing below into an elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, terminal, stout, laxly 5 to 50 flowered inflorescence with large, fleshy, fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).