Satyrium membranaceum Sw. 1800 Photo by © Cameron McMaster

Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa Photo by Hubert Kurzweil ©, and his South African Orchid Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Membranaceous Satyrium

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found S & E Cape Province on sandy flatts, grassy hillsides and in woodlands at elevations of 100 to 1600 meters as a small to medium szied, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2, adpressed to the ground, very wide leaves that abruptly transtition into the sheathing leaves above that blooms in the late winter through spring on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 8.8" [3 to 22 cm] long, densely 6 to 35 flowered inflroescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Diplectrum membranaceum Pers. 1807; Satyrium jacottetiae Kraenzl. 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen #5 17-20 tafel 6 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973 photo ok; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo;

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