Satyrium acuminatum Lindl. 1838 Photo by Hubert Kurzweil ©, and his South African Orchid Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Acuminate Satyrium

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found S & SE Cape Province in fynbos and grassy and bushy slopes at elevations of 90 to 1500 meters as a miniature to medium szied, cool to cold growing terretrial with 2, small, adpressed flat to the ground, wider than long leaves that transition abruptly into the sheathing leaves above that blooms in the late winter to early summer

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo;

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