| Satyrium longicauda Lindl. |
|
|
| Information on the genus : Satyrium |
| |
|
| |
|
Status
|
| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
|
| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
|
| |
| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Satyrium longicauda Lindl. var. longicauda |
| |
| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Satyrium platystigma Schltr. (1924) |
| |
| Taxon infra-specific |
| Satyrium longicauda var. jacottetianum (Kraenzl.) A.V. Hall |
| Satyrium longicauda Lindl. var. longicauda |
| |
| Ecology and distribution |
|
|
| Biology : |
Terrestrial slender herb 10-65-81 cm tall; tubers ellipsoid, 1-3,5x0,4-1,3 cm; sterile shoot to 6 cm tall, 3-5-leaved; 1-3 lower leaves sheath-like, the others lanceolate, 3,5-22x1-9 cm; flowering shoot with 3-9 imbricating leaf sheaths, lanceolate, 2,5-10x1-3 cm; inflorescence 4-30 cm long, 3-60-flowered; flowers curved outwards, white to pink, veins deeper coloured, sweet scented; bracts deflexed, ovate, 10-35x6-12 mm, pinkish; ovary 8-15 mm long; sepals free almost to base, recurved distantly; dorsal sepal elliptic, 9-13x1-3 mm; laterals 5-14x3 mm; petals narrowly elliptic, 9-13x3 mm, margins ciliolate; lip very convex, hooded, ovoid, 8-13x10-12 mm, margins shortly hairy; spurs 22-46 mm long, tapering, parallel to ovary. |
|
| Ecology : |
Grassland, grassy meadows; stony hillsides; rock crevices; 1230-3100 m alt. |
| |
Pollination studied by Johnson & al. (Pl. Syst. Evol. 292: 97, 2011).
A hybrid with S. neglectum subsp. neglectum has been named S. x fibeckii (See under that name). Another putative hybrid, with S. neglectum subsp. woodii, is listed by Hall (1982: 135) and considered as S. rhodanthum Schltr. by him, maintained as a separate species by Linder & Kurzweil, Orchids south. Afr.:174,177, 1999.
Very close to S. buchananii Schltr., and some plants in Zimbabwe seem to be intermediate. The two species are perhaps conspecific. |
| |
S. Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland. |
|
| |
| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under chg |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
| |
| Map |
|
|
|
More information >> ( work in progress )
|
| |
| Record n°175966 |
| Feedback about this record |
