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Satyrium atherstonei

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Identification
Satyrium trinerve Rendle [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Satyrium atherstonei Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Satyrium trinerve
  • Satyrium leucocomos
  • Satyrium proschii
  • Satyrium unrecorded
  • Satyrium zombense
  • Satyrium nuttii
  • Satyrium atherstonei
  • Satyrium occultum

Flora

Entry for SATYRIUM Atherstonei Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)
Names
SATYRIUM Atherstonei Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1881, 328;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 194; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 93; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 660.
SATYRIUM triphyllum Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 660.
SATYRIUM monopetalum Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 662.
SATYRIUM trinerve Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 182, partly, not of Lindl.
Information
plant 1–2 ft. high; stems stout; leaves cauline, 2–4, suberect, oblong or linear-oblong, acute or subacute, 3–6 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, somewhat fleshy; scapes 1–2 ft. high, with two or three narrow sheaths above; spikes 1–4 in. long, very dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1/3–1 in. long; pedicels 1–2 lin. long; flowers very small, white or white and yellow; sepals and petals united to the middle; odd sepal oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; lateral sepals longer and broader than the odd sepal, somewhat spreading; petals oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; lip cucullate, ovoid-globose, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, subobtuse, not or scarcely reflexed at the apex; spurs rather stout, somewhat curved, 1 1/4–2 lin. long; column curved, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; stigma broadly rhomboid-ovate, 3/4 lin. long, broader than long; rostellum rhomboid-oblong, minutely 3-lobed at the apex, scarcely half as long as the stigma. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; summit of West Gate, Port St. John, 1200 ft., Galpin, 3420! Natal; Clairmont Flat, Sanderson, 478! Wood, 1599! 1716! Newcastle, 3800 ft., Wood, 6657! Oliviers Hoek, sources of Tugela River, 5000 ft., Allison, 28! Highlands, Gerrard, 1562! Fairfield, Rudatis, 572! and without precise locality, Mrs. Fannin, 4! Mrs. K. Saunders! Gerrard, 2181!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Wilms, 1358, 1359; Mac Mac, Mudd! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5824! Schlechter; Belfast, Burtt-Davy, 1305! Doidge, 4790! swamps of Nyl River, Nelson, 108! Klein Oliphants River, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 4038; Witbank, near Middelburg, 5300 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 7243! Merwe Station, Rech, 6293!

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