Satyrium compactum Summerh. 1966
Collection Sheet by © Graham Williamson
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Compact Satyrium [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size
Found in Zambia and Zimbabwe in perennially wet dambo, among coarse grass on peaty soil, in sedge mats on liquid peat in swampy grasslands at elevations of 1350 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ghloboise tubers gving rise to an an erect, straight, thin stem carrying 6 to 10, lowermost bractlike, middle erect to suberect, linear to lanceolate-linear, acute, the uppermost 2 to 3 are much smaller leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, ,4 to 2.4" [1 to 6 cm] long, shortly cylindrical, rachis shortly pubescent, 4 to many flowered inflorescence with patent, small, lanceoalte, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts
"It is characterized by the short dense inflorescence of small flowers, the simply convex almost horizontally placed labellum and the short obtuse spurs. Unlike many other species of the subgenus Trinerve it has smnall, scarcely noticeable bracts." Summerhayes 1966
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 20: 179 Summerhayes 1966
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