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ORIGIN: Found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Congo, Zaire, Ethiopia Zambia in riverine forests at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 1.2 to 5.2 [3 to 13 cm] between each, ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly compressed, sharply 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single to two, lanceolate, to linear-lanceolate, obtusely emarginate, apically gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, slightly flattened, to 6 to 15.2 [15 to 38 cm] long, 28 to 68 flowered inflorescence with tufted hairs and enveloped below by 10 scarious sheaths and large, scarious, imbricate, triangular, grey -purple with some fine dark hairs, recurved, longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying distichous, several opening together, not widely opening flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [0.65 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).