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Satyrium monadenum
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Road between Dam 2 and dam 3, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Road between Dam 2 and dam 3, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Road between Dam 2 and dam 3, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Road between Dam 2 and dam 3, Nyika National Park
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Terrestrial herb 30–60 cm, high, sometimes forming colonies; tubers globose to ovoid, 1.5–2 cm long, hairy. Sterile shoot with 3-4 leaves, usually developing at flowering time, the lowest 2 sheath-like, the terminal one lanceolate, c. 5 cm long. Flowering stem purplish in upper half with 6–7 loosely sheathing leaves up to 7 cm long. Inflorescence densely many-flowered, 9–15 cm long. Flowers rich carmine-red; bracts to 25 mm long at base of inflorescence, reflexed, tinged red. Sepals and petals spreading and projecting forwards, joined to each other and lip for about a third of their length. Median sepal narrowly oblong, 12–14 mm long, rounded; lateral sepals similar but broader and oblique. Petals similar to median sepal. Lip hooded with a wide mouth, 10–12 mm long, slightly reflexed at the apex. Spurs slender, 12–15 mm long, parallel to ovary. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | Red data status: VU A2dD2 |
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| Habitat: | Seasonally wet montane grassland |
| Altitude range: | Above 2100 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, northern Malawi and Zambia (Nyika only) |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
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| Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Saturday 23 March 2019 |
| Literature: |
Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 230 - 231. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 335. (Includes a picture). La Croix, I. & Cribb, P.J. (1995). Orchidaceae (Part 1) Flora Zambesiaca 11(1) Page 209. La Croix, I. et al. (1991). Orchids of Malawi A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam Page 137. (Includes a picture). Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 124. Williamson, G. (1977). The Orchids of South Central Africa J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London. Pages 93 - 94. (Includes a picture). |
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