Satyrium lupulinum Lindl. 1838 Photo by © Marland Holderness and his Flickr Website

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

Common Name The Hops-Like Satyrium

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in SW & S Cape Province South Africa in coastal flats and in mountains on partly shaded, moist, sandy slopes as a slender, miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, spreading close to the ground, often purple beneath leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 12" [3 to 30 cm] long, densely 6 to 40 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant [pungent & Soapy] flowers

Synonyms Satyrium pallidiflorum Schltr.1895

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

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