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ORIGIN: Found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkino Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo in marshes or damp grassy places in meadows.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized terrestrial with a single ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 5 to 6, spaced out along the stem, narrowly lanceolate, acute, suberect, decreasing in size towards the apex, the uppermost bract-like leaves that blooms in the later spring through fall on an eret, terminal, .8 to 1.4 [2 to 3.5 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying yellow-orange to orange flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).