Satyrium rhynchanthum Bolus 1882 Photo by © Wally Orchard and his AfroDisa Webpage

Inflorescence Photo by Hubert Kurzweil ©, and his South African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Beak Flowered Satyrium

Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]

Found in southwestern South Africa in fynbos, marsshes and on moist slopes at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a small to medium szied, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 6, partly erect, narrow leaves that gradually transitioning into the several sheathing leaves above that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, [4 to 12 cm] long, 10 to 40 flowered inflorescence carrying sweetly pungent scented flowers

Synonyms Satyridium rostratum Lindl.1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Satyridium rostratum; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Satyridium rostratum photo;

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