Satyrium trinerve Lindl. 1838 SUBGENUS Trinervia
Plant and Flowers in situ Zimbabwe
Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Drawing by Geerinck
EARLY
Common Name The Three Nerved Satyrium [refers to the three lobes to the lip apex]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, E cape Province, Transkei, Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transvaal states of South Africa, Comoros and Madagascar in marshes and humid forests at elevations of 1200 to 2250 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with elongated, woolly tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying radical, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and earlier fall on a 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, pubescent inflorescence with linear, elongate, acute, green, recurved floral bracts and carrying many [130], small, non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Satyrium atherstonei Rchb. f. 1881; Satyrium leucocomos Rchb.f. 1865; Satyrium longibracteatum Rolfe 1889; Satyrium mechowianum Kraenzl. 1893; Satyrium monopetalum Kraenzl. 1898; Satyrium nuttii Rolfe 1898; Satyrium occultum Rolfe 1898; Satyrium proschii Briq. 1903; Satyrium schinzii T.Durand & Kraenzl. 1899; Satyrium triphyllum Kraenzl. 1898; Satyrium zombense Rolfe 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 344 Lindley 1838
Flora 48: 182 Rchb.f 1865 as S leucocomos
Flora 64: 328 Rchb.f 1881 as S atherstonei
Bol. Soc. Brot. 7: 238 Rolfe 1889 as S longibracteatum
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 65 Kraenzlin 1893 as S mechowianum
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 504 Kraenzlin 1898 as S monopetalum
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 504 Kraenzlin 1898 as S triphyllum
Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 273 Rolfe 1898 as S nuttii
Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 273 Rolfe 1898 as S occultum
Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 273 Rolfe 1898 as S zombense
Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 696 T Duran & Kraenzlin 1899 as S schinzii
Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 6: 2 Briq. 1903 as S porschii
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 252 Summerhayes 1933 as S occultum ;
Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981;
Kew Bull. 6: 464 Summerhayes 1951 publ. 1952 as S atherstonei
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as S atherstonei;
Kew Bull. 20: 179 Summerhayes 1966 as S atherstonei
Kew Bull. 20: 180 Summerhayes 1966 as S leucocomos;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as S atherstonei drawing fide;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as S atherstonei drawing/photo ok;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as S leucocomus drawing ok;
Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 3 1993 photo not = S cristatum?;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 77 #3 2013 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide;
Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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