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ORIGIN: Found in Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad, Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in seasonally wet grasslands, dambos and swampy grasslands at elevations of 480 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with subteranean, irregular shaped tubers giving rise to 3 to 4, linear, acuminate, grass-like leaves that are absent or just emerging at blooming which is in the late spring on an erect, laxly 1 to 8 flowered inflorescence usually carrying 3 to 4 scarious bracts and carrying scarious, spreading, linear, acuminate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).