Satyrium × guthriei Bolus, Icon. Orchid. Austro-Afric. 1(1): t. 21 (1893).
Description:
Stem a span or more high, erect, with about two inflated sheaths; leaves 2, radical, the lower ovate, lying close to the ground, about 7,5 cm. long, (the upper damaged in the only specimen seen); spike somewhat loosely several-flowered, bracts lanceolate, the lower spreading, the upper ascending, mostly exceeding the flowers; sepals oblong subacute, about 7 mm, long, the side ones oblique or subfalcate, the middle one straight; petals strap-shaped acute, the margins minutely and irregularly notched, narrower than the sepals and almost equally long; lip galeate globose-inflated, mouth roundish, dorsal ridge sharply keeled, free apex acuminate reflexed, spurs filiform pendulous about as long as the ovary; stalk or foot of the column twice as long as the rostellum; rostellum triangular or broadly tongue-shaped, arched and projecting forward, emarginate in front, the glands situate very near each other on either side the notch; anther pushed up horizontally and projecting beyond the rostellum, apex of the connective free acuminate bent forward under the rostellum; stigmatiferous lobe bipartite, the segments subulate erect, somewhat divaricate towards the apex, much shorter than the rostellum; ovary prominently ribbed.
Notes:
Colour of stem and bracts brownish and pale red, flowers from pale pink to white, spurs and nerves of the galea red.
Hybrid Formula:
S. bicallosum × S. candidum
Habitat:
Distribution:
SW. Cape Prov.
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| Photograph copyright Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Image used with kind permission. |
