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Satyrium cristatum

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Identification
Satyrium cristatum Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for SATYRIUM cristatum Sond. [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 cristatum Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xix. 84;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 194; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 95; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 717; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 169, partly, excl. syn. Reichb. f.
SATYRIUM pentadactylum Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 506, and Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 716.
Information
plant 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high; stems stout; leaves 2–3, suberect, ovate-oblong to broadly elliptic, subacute, 3–6 in. long, somewhat fleshy; scapes 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high, with several somewhat imbricate spathaceous sheaths; spikes 2–6 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, reflexed after flowering; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; flowers medium-sized, white, streaked with red (Allison, Wood); odd sepal oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; lateral sepals rather broader and spreading; petals oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; lip cucullate, broadly elliptic-oblong, 3–5 lin. long, with a broadly oblong obtuse crenulate reflexed apex; spurs rather stout below, more or less acuminate above, 3 1/2–5 lin. long, somewhat curved; column curved, 2 1/2–4 lin. long; stigma subquadrate, 1 1/2 lin. long, broader than long; rostellum shortly tridentate, rather shorter than the stigma. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; summit of Bosch Berg, 4800 ft., MacOwan, 1527! 1900! and in Herb. Bolus, 6126!COAST REGION Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, Miss West! Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1105! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 2000 ft., Hutton! Zeyher! Scully, 414! Elands Berg, 6000 ft., Scully, 407! Willsdale, 2500 ft., Scully, 414! Queenstown Div.; Madeira Hill, 4000–4500 ft., Galpin, 2035! British Kaffraria, Brownlee, 2, partly! Eastern Frontier of Cape Colony, MacOwan, 513!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000–4000 ft., Baur, 140! 633! Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 6000 ft., Tyson, 1082. Pondoland; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! Natal; Sevenfontein, 3000–4000 ft., Wylie; Attercliff, Sanderson, 477! near Durban, Sanderson, 236! Gerrard, 736! Oliviers Hoek, 4000 ft., Allison! Inanda, Wood, 336! 1582! near Van Reenan, 5000–6000 ft., Wood, 5533! Table Land, 2000 ft., Buchanan! Highlands, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 6851! Gerrard, 1548! Dumisa, 2300 ft., Rudatis, 571! and without precise locality, Buchanan! Mrs. Fannin! Mrs. K. Saunders! Zululand; without precise locality, Mrs. McKenzie!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony, Cooper, 1096! Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5836! 5837! Schlechter, 4414; Spitzkop, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1369; near Barberton, 4000–5000 ft., Galpin, 724! Culver, 48, Thorncroft, 456; Belfast, 6500 ft., Burtt-Davy, 1306! 4795! Ermelo, Miss Leendertz, 3127! Middelburg, Hewitt, 8041!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Scott-Elliot!
Notes
A very variable species, if all the above are really identical. I have not seen the type of S. pentadactylum, Kränzl., but the Angolan S. Ivantalæ, Reichb. f., which is referred here by Schlechter, is clearly different.

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