Satyrium rupestre Schltr. 1897 SUBGENUS Satyrium
Photo © Kurzweil and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Harry Bolus and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Rock-Loving Satyrium
Flower Size
Found in southern Cape Province South Africa in shaded forest habitats near the cooast and on wet mossy rock faces higher in the mountains at elevations of 60 to 1500 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a slender stem carrying 2 to 4, near the ground, spreading, ovate, acute leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, 6 to 45 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photos fide;
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