Satyrium ligulatum Lindl. 1838 Photos by © Marland Holderness and his Flickr Website

Plant and Flowers in situ Cape Province South Africa Photo by © Cameron McMaster

Common Name The Spoon-Shaped Satyrium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Cape Province, Natal and Orange Free State in coastal scrub, woodlands and moist to marshy flats among grass at elevations near the sea in full sun as a miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 4, lower ground hugging leaves that grade smaller up the stem that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, to 5 to 13.2" [2 to 33 cm] long, 4 to 85 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Satyrium emarcidum Bolus 1885

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

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