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Orchid Species: Satyrium volkensii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Satyrium volkensii is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1897.
ORIGIN: Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zanbia and Zimbabwe in higher elevation grasslands at elevations of 2200 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with globose to fusiform-cylindrical, tomentose tubers giving rise to a 3 to 4 leafed sterile stem with 1 to 2 short sheath-like, abtuse leves and the upper 1 to 3, lanceolate to oblong-elliptical, acute leaves and a fertile, erect, slender to stout, covered by leaf sheaths stem carrying lanceolate, acute leaf like sheaths and blooms in the spring on a narrowly cylindrical, 4 to 16.8 [10 to 42 cm] long, loosely to densely many flowered inflorescence with elongate, linea, acute, green tinged with red, recurved floral bracts and carrying fragrant, non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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