Satyrium paludosum Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Leucocomus Schlechter Specimen by © A Stolz JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

LATER

Common Name The Swamp-Living Satyrium

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Kenya, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in grasslands and swamps at elevations around 2400 to 2500 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, slender to stout stem carrying 5 to 11, the lowest 2 to 3 sheathlke, the remainder, suberect, lanceolate, acute, progressively smaller above leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, more or less pyrimidical, .8 to 2.8" [2 to 7 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with spreading, lanceolate, acute bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995;

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