Satyrium carneum (Dryand.) Sims 1812
Alba Variety in situ Photos by © Cameron McMaster
Smaller Plant in situ South Africa
Larger Plant in situ South Africa Photos by Tyrone Genade ©
Common Name or Meaning The Fleshy Satyrium - Rooi-kappie - Rooi-trewwa - Ewwa-trewwa
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Eastern to South eastern South Africa among sand dune brush, in fynbos on coastal hills and on ridges on moist to dry sands and limestones as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrtial arising from bifid tubers giving rise to 2 to 4, thick, fleshy, lowest 2 adpressed to the ground, gradual transition above to the sheaths above leaves that blooms in the spring on a stout, dense, 10" [25 cm] long, 19 to 38 flowered inflorescnece with partly deflexed, minutely ciliate bracts that are almost 2 times as long as the ovary and fragrant flower
Synonyms *Orchis carnea Dryand. 1789; Orchis foliacea Burm.f. 1768;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999
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