Pterygodium dracomontanum

Pterygodium dracomontanum, previously scientifically Corycium dracomontanum, is an erect and slender ground orchid. It grows from a perennial underground tuber, annually becoming about 22 cm tall in its deciduous above-ground parts. 

Its numerous leaves are lance-shaped, nearly linear and spreading, angled upwards around the stem.

As the specific name, dracomontanum suggests, the species distribution centres in the Drakensberg where the plants are most numerous. It also occurs more widespread from near Mossel Bay in the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape, the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga to beyond the border as far as Malawi and Tanzania. This plant was seen in the Sani Pass.

The habitat is mainly grassland, often montane, but plants may also be found at altitudes as low as 180 m and in other vegetation including thickets. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Liltved and Johnson, 2012; iNaturalist; Wikipedia; http://redlist.sanbi.org).