Satyrium rostratum Lindl. 1838
Photos by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Common Name The Beak-Carrying Satyrium - In Madagascar - Rasamoala
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Madagascar in grasslands rocky outcrops and near forests at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid-oblong tubers giving rise to a basally sheathed, stem carrying several, oval-acute, flat, plicate leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and early fall on an erect, 10 to 16" [25 to 40 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by lanceolate, green recurved bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Satyrium gigas Ridl. 1886
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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