Satyrium coriophoroides A.Rich. 1840 SUBGENUS Chlorocorys
Photos by © Robert v Blittersdorff and The East African Plant Database Website
Drawing by by © Graham Williamson
Common Name The Orchis Coriophora-Like Satyrium
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cameroon, Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in grasslands at elevations of 1800 to 2850 meters as a medium to giant sized, cool to cold growing, glabrous terrestrial with both a sterile stem carrying 4 to 5, upper 1 to 2, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, leaves and a slender to rather robust fertile stem almost totally enveloped by appressed, lanceolate, acute sheathing leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on a terminal, erect, narrowly cylindrical, 3.23" to 10" [8 to 25 cm] long, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carrying white to crimson colored flowers
Synonyms Satyrium coriophoroides var. sacculatum Rendle 1895; Satyrium gilletii De Wild. 1903; Satyrium macrostachyum Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850; Satyrium sacculatum (Rendle) Rolfe 1898; Satyrium stolzii Kraenzl. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 14: 274 A Rich. 1840
Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 298 Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 as S macrostachyum;
J. Bot. 33: 295 Rendle 1895 as S coriophoroides var sacculatum
Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 266 Rolfe 1898 as S sacculatum
Not. Pl. Util. Congo 1: 153 De Wild. 1903 as S gilletii
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 388 Kraenzlin 1912 as S stolzii
Kew Bull. 20: 177 Summerhayes 1966
Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968;
Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as S sacculatum;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as S sacculatum;
Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as S sacculatum drawing/photo fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Orchidaceae Pope 1995;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 as S sacculatum;
Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rassmussen 2004;
Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rassmussen 2004 as S sacculatum Photo good;
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