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SATYRIUM PRINCEPS (ORCHIDACEAE)

Satyrium princeps is a species of orchid endemic to Extreme southern coast Cape Province.It's a robust terrestrial reaching 340mm-690mm in height. Leaves 2,pressed flat on the ground,very broadly egg-shaped to elliptic;sheaths 7-9,dry and membranous at flowering time. Inflorescence dense,13-33-flowered;bracts gradually becoming deflexed,1.4-2.8 times the length of the 8-17 mm-long ovary. Flowers rose-pink to carmine-red. Sepals and petals fused to the lip for one fifth of their length;median sepal 11-14 mm long;lip entrance 7-8 mm tall,flap thickly hairy and crisped,partly reflexed;spurs 16-20 mm long.

Occasional in open places,between bushes on dunes close to the shoreline,from sea level to 150m. Pollinated by sunbirds. Flowers between late September and early November.