Satyrium amblyosaccos Schltr. 1915 SUBGENUS Leucocomos

Plant and Flowers in situ Zambia

Photos by © Peter Linder and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Blunt Sack Satyrium

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Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in montane, wet to dry grasslands, marshes and brachystegia woodlands at elevations of 1200 to 2300 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to fusiform tubers giving rise to a sterile shoot with 3 to 4, lower 2 to 3 sheathlike, the upper ones lanceolate, acute leaves and the fertile stem carries 5 to 9, the largest is middlemost and erect, lanceolate, lowermost loosely basal, sheathing leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect,2 to 8" [5 to 20 cm] long, fairly densely many flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Satyrium papillosum Schltr. 1916

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing good; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;

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