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Satyrium bicorne

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Filed as Satyrium bicorne Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Filed as Satyrium bicorne (L.) Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Filed as Satyrium bicorne Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

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Satyrium bicorne Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2006 Satyrium cucullatum Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for SATYRIUM bicorne Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)

SATYRIUM bicorne Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 6;—Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 122, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 192; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 93; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 675; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 144.

SATYRIUM cucullatum Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 216, t. 3, fig. C; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 17, partly; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 69, 102, 121.

Orchis bicornis Linn. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1330; Houtt. Handl. xii. 455, t. 86, fig. 1.

Orchis lutea, caule geniculato, Buxb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Pl. Min. Cogn. Cent. iii. 6, t. 8.

plant 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high; stems stout; leaves 2, radical, sessile, spreading, cordate-orbicular or cordate-ovate, subobtuse, ciliate, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–3 in. broad, fleshy; scapes 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high, with several broad tubular or spathaceous bracts; spikes 2–4 in. long, somewhat lax, many-flowered; bracts ovate-oblong or elliptic, acute or subobtuse, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, reflexed after flowering; pedicels about 1/3 in. long; flowers dull ochre-yellow, scented; odd sepal oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long, reflexed; lateral sepals rather larger and spreading; petals oblong, obtuse, about as large as the odd sepal, spreading; lip galeate, broadly ovate, obtuse, 3 1/2 lin. long, basal third united to the margin of the lateral sepals; spurs cylindrical, slender and somewhat curved, 7–9 lin. long; column curved, 2 1/2 lin. long; stigma oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2 lin. long; rostellum oblong, with a short tooth in front, deflexed, much shorter than the stigma. null

COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Laaus Kloof, under 1000 ft., Drège, 8294c! Cape Div.; near Simons Town, Wolley-Dod, 2986! Doorn Hoogte, Zeyher, 1559! between Kirstenbosch and Wynberg, Zeyher, 4679! Simons Bay, Wright, 139! Lions Head, Wolley-Dod, 376! Cape Flats, Pappe, 63! heathy places up to 2000 ft., Bolus, 4556. Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 1500 ft., MacOwan, 3128! and Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1758! Stellenbosch, Lloyd, 13! (in Herb. Sanderson, 940!) Swellendan Div.; near Appels Kraal, Zeyher! Zuurbraak, on the ruggens, 800 ft., Galpin, 4602! Uniondale Div.; between Keurbooms River and Kromme River, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 8295d!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Brown! Thom, 715! Harvey, 119! 133! Lehmann! Oldenburg, 54!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near Ezelsfontein and Roode Berg, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 8295a!