Satyrium aberrans Summerh. 1996 SECTION Leucocomus Schlechter Photo by © P J Cribb and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

DrawingDrawing by Mary Grierson © A Stolz JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

Common Name The Deviating Satyrium

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania and Zimbabwe in rock crevasses at elevations around 1800 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to elongate ovoid, more or less tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, slender stem carrying 3 to 5, the lowest sheathlike, the 2 to 3 middle, spreading, ovate to elliptical to lanceolate, obtuse to acute, fleshy, progressively smaller above leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 4 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence with spreading, lanceolate, acute bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 drawing; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide;

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