Satyrium elongatum Rolfe 1898<

Collection sheet and photo by © Thomas Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Elongate Satyrium

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in seasonally wet, boggy grasslands at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid, woolly tubers giving rise to a sterile stem carrying 3 to 4, laowermost 1 to 2, loosely sheathing, the upper most lanceolate to oblanceolate leaves and a fertile stem carrying 6 to 10, loosely sheathing leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, narrowly cylindrical, fairly laxly many flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;

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