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Orchid Species: Satyrium cristatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Satyrium cristatum is an orchid species identified by Sond. in 1846.
ORIGIN: Found in Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland and Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal states of South Africa in moist grassy flats at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 2 to 3, spreading, shallowly v shaped in cross section leaves abruptly transitioning into the sheathing leaves above that blooms in the summer on an erect, 1.6 to 12 [4 to 30 cm] long, successively many [8 to 85] flowered inflorescence with red, narrowly linear, acute, recurved, floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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