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Orchid Species: Satyrium chlorocorys
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Satyrium chlorocorys is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. ex Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.) in 1898.
ORIGIN: Found in Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in drier montane grassland among rocks at elevations of 1450 to 2350 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 5 to 8, lowermost 1to 2 sheathing, the next 2 to 3, spreading, held near the base, broadly lanceolate to ovate, pale glossy green, the uppermost, erect, grading to bract-like leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a 1.2 to 15 [3 to 37 cm] long, fairly densely many-flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, recurved, green floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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