Satyrium amoenum (Thouars) A.Rich. 1828
Photos by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
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Common Name The Beautiful Satyrium
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Comoros, Reunion and Madagascar in montane ericaceous scrub at elevations of 1200 to 2450 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid-oblong tubers giving rise to a stem enveloped basally by 1 to 2 non-foliaceous sheaths and then 1 to 3 leaf-bearing sheaths carrying flat, oval-acute leaves that blooms in the later spring, summer and earlier fall on a terminal, densely many flowered inflorescence with floral bracts that are green, recurved and cover part of the non-resupinate flower.
Synonyms *Diplectrum amoenum Thouars 1822; Satyrium amoenum var. tsaratananae H.Perrier 1939; Satyrium amoenum var. tsaratananae H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007; Satyrium gracile Lindl. 1838; Satyrium perrieri Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Diplectrum amoenum drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as S amoenum var tsaratananae drawing good; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 as S amoenum var tsaratananae; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 as S amoenum var tsaratananae; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 as S perrieri photo fide to the pink flower; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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