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Satyrium anomalum

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Satyrium anomalum Schltr. from Zimbabwe
Satyrium anomalum Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
not a type of Satyrium anomalum Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Satyrium anomalum Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Satyrium anomalum Schltr. from Zimbabwe
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Name

Identification
Satyrium anomalum Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Satyrium anomalum

Flora

Entry for Satyrium anomalum Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
Satyrium anomalum Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 424.
Information
Plant stout, erect, glabrous, 20–32 in. high. Leaves not known. Stem with several distant loose acute sheaths. Spikes elongate, cylindrical, 8–10 in. long, loosely many-flowered. Bracts leafy, erect at first, ultimately reflexed, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, lower exceeding the flowers, upper scarcely equalling them. Pedicels scarcely 5 lin. long. Flowers green. Sepals and petals spreading, connate to the middle into a linear claw; lateral sepals obliquely falcate-oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2 lin. long, odd one linear, obtuse, shorter than the lateral. Petals linear, obtuse, as long as the odd sepal, slightly dilated and puberulous at the apex. Lip galeate, subglobose, scarcely keeled behind, free margin erect, subacute at the apex; mouth much contracted; spurs filiform, spreading or ascending, as long as the pedicels. Column slender, terete, somewhat curved; stigma subquadrate or 4-lobed; rostellum as long as the stigma, subquadrate-oblong, somewhat trilobed, side lobes short, toothlike and acute, middle lobe large, suborbicular, and shortly stalked.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Buchanan.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description, but clearly allied to S. minax, Rolfe, though apparently different in the colour of the flowers and some other details.

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