| A widespread, small sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte or occasional monopodial lithophyte from Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Cape Province, Natal, and Transvaal South Africa found most often in woodlands but sometimes riverine forests at or around elevations of 600m to 2500m that has a stout, long, pendulous, stem enveloped by presistent, distichous, dark brown leaf sheaths carrying many, robust aerial roots and 6 to 12, oblong, obliquely apically bilobed, fleshy coriaceous leaves needs bright light to bloom well with an axillary, bracteate, raceme up to 20cm in length, with up to 10 to 14 waxy, nocturnally sweetly fragrant flowers with prominent bracts occurring in the summer. This species is best grown in a basket or mounted on treefern and needs high humidity, cool to warm temperatures and a cooler and drier winter rest.
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