Satyrium chlorocorys Rchb.f. ex Rolfe 1898 SECTION Chlorocorys type for the section

Plant and Flowers in situ Zimbabwe Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite

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Common Name The Green Hooded Satyrium

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Found in Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in drier montane grassland among rocks at elevations of 1450 to 2350 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 5 to 8, lowermost 1to 2 sheathing, the next 2 to 3, spreading, held near the base, broadly lanceolate to ovate, pale glossy green, the uppermost, erect, grading to bract-like leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a 1.2 to 15" [3 to 37 cm] long, fairly densely many-flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, recurved, green floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Satyrium fallax Schltr.1915; Satyrium kraenzlinii Rolfe 1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide

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