Partial shade, cool to hot temperature, flower in fall
Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Province and Natal South Africa as an epiphyte and occassional lithophyte in woodland and riverine forests at elevations of 100 to 2300 meters with a concave, square, or trapezoid pseudobulb, well spaced along the rhizome, carrying 2, apical, linear or elliptic, leathery or fleshy leaves that blooms on a 2 to 22" [5 to 55 cm] long, many flowered, fleshy, round and then flattened, undulate, bracteate, purple, sometimmes hirsute rachis arising on a newly mature pseudobulb, with simultaneously opening flowers occuring in the fall in nature. This species is a hot to cool growing epiphyte, best grown in pots with partial shade.
