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Satyrium breve

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Name

Identification
Satyrium breve Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Summerhayes, V.S., Satyrium breve Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Satyrium trinerve
  • Satyrium breve
  • Satyrium unrecorded

Flora

Entry for SATYRIUM breve Rolfe [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 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
SATYRIUM breve Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Information
Plant 1 1/2–1 3/4 ft. high, with several lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, cauline leaves, 2–4 1/2 in. long; lower leaves not seen. Raceme short or oblong, 2–3 in. long, dense. Bracts ovate-anceolate, acute, 6–9 lin. long. Pedicels 3 lin. long. Sepals 6 lin. long; odd one linear-oblong, obtuse; lateral oblong, and twice as broad, spreading. Petals united for half their length to the sepals, slightly narrower than the odd one. Lip galeate, subcompressed, 5 1/2 lin. long, the basal third united to the lateral sepals; mouth rather narrow; apex broadly rounded, slightly crenulate; spurs oblong, 2 lin. long. Column 3 lin. long; stigma broadly ovate; rostellum broad and stout, bilobed.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, common in the wet months, Buchanan, 314!

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