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Satyrium macrophyllum

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Identification
Satyrium macrophyllum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for SATYRIUM macrophyllum Lindl. [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 macrophyllum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 338;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 151; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 307, and Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 159; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 74, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 194; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 97; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 695; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 168.
Information
plant 1 1/4–2 1/2 ft. high; stem stout; leaves 2–4, suberect, subsessile, ovate-oblong to broadly elliptic, obtuse or subacute, 1/3–1 ft. long, 2 1/2–5 in. broad, somewhat fleshy; scapes 1 1/4–2 1/2 ft. high, with several somewhat imbricate sheaths; spikes 4–10 in. long, rather dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate or lanceolate-ovate, acute or acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, reflexed after flowering; pedicels 6–7 lin. long; flowers rather small, light or dark pink; odd sepal linear, obtuse, 4–5 lin. long; lateral sepals shorter and broader than the odd sepal and spreading; petals linear, obtuse, almost as long as the lateral sepals; lip cucullate, broadly ovate, 3 lin. long, with an apiculate reflexed apex; spurs slender, somewhat curved, 3/4–1 in. long, adnate at the base to the pedicel; column curved, 2 1/2 lin. long; stigma broadly obovate-oblong, obtuse, 1 lin. long; rostellum broadly oblong or suborbicular, 3-denticulate at the apex, rather shorter than the stigma. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 646.EASTERN REGION Transkei; valleys and slopes near Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 395! Pondoland; between St. Johns River and Umsikaba River, 1000-2000 ft., Drège! Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 6000 ft., Tyson, 1089; mountains near Emyembe, 5000 ft., Tyson, 2087! mountains near Clydesdale, 3500 ft., Tyson, 2735! Natal; Umzinto River, McKen, 1535! near Richmond, 3000 ft., Wood, 1848! Inanda, 2200 ft., Wood, 3585! Manderston, 2800 ft., Wood! Attercliff, 800 ft., Sanderson, 477! between Umgeni Falls and Pietermaritzburg, 3700 ft., Schlechter, 7035; Dumisa, 2300 ft., Rudatis, 623! and without precise locality, Sanderson! Mrs. K. Saunders!

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