Satyrium subgen. Bifidum Kurzweil & H.P. Linder in Beitr. Biol. Pfl.
Type species: Satyrium erectum Sw.
Description:
Slender to stout plants with cauline or basal leaves which are often adpressed to the ground. Bracts most commonly deflexed. Lip galeate with a broad entrance, apical flap short or elongate; spurs slender-filiform and mostly longer than the ovary; stigma flap-like; rostellum 3-lobed with short or long parallel arms, viscidia 2, usually terminal.
Species:
| Satyrium candidum Lindl. | SW. Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium cristatum Sond. | Angola to S. Africa. |
| Satyrium cristatum var. cristatum | S. Africa. |
| Satyrium cristatum var. longilabiatum A.V.Hall | Angola to S. Africa. |
| Satyrium erectum | Sw. W. & SW. Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium foliosum | Sw. SW. Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium humile Lindl. | SW. Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium longicolle Lindl. | S. Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium macrophyllum Lindl. | Kenya to S. Africa. |
| Satyrium pallens S.D.Johnson & Kurzweil | Western Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium pulchrum S.D.Johnson & Kurzweil | W. Cape Prov. |
| Satyrium sphaerocarpum Lindl. | Mozambique to Cape Prov. |
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.kew.org/wcsp/ accessed 1/17/2010
