Satyrium hallackii Bolus 1884 SUBGENUS Macrophyllum Photo by © J D Adendorff

Common Name Hallack's Satyrium [English orchid enthusiast in South Africa 1800's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in southwestern and southern Cape Province South Africa in moist and brackish soils near the shore at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a medium to large sized, cool cold growing terrestrial orchid with a leaf stem carrying 8 to 10, lowermost sheathing, next 2 to 4, broadly lanceolate, and the upper ascending and scaling down to bract-like leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, fairly densely many flowered inflorescence with linear, acute, recurved floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Satyrium foliosum Lindl. 1838; Satyrium foliosum var. helonioides Lindl. 1838; Satyrium hallackii subsp. ballii (van der Niet & P.J.Cribb) van der Niet & P.J.Cribb 2007; Satyrium hallackii subsp. ocellatum (Bolus) A.V.Hall 1982 - See Satyrium hallackii Bolus 1884; Satyrium hallackii var. ballii van der Niet & P.J.Cribb 2006; Satyrium nutans Kraenzl.1898; Satyrium ocellatum Bolus 1893;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as S foliosum photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 as Satyrium hallackii subsp. ocellatum ; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 as S foliosum photo ok; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photos fide;

Satyrium hallackii subsp. ocellatum (Bolus) A.V.Hall 1982

A Colony of Plant and Flowers in situ Transvaal South Africa Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Found in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Natal and Transvaal states of South Africa at elevations of 600 to 2200 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with 4 to 6 cauline leaves grading into floral bracts above that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 30 to 60 flowered inflorescence and carrying faintly scented flowers.

Differs from S hallackii in the shorter spur, bloom times and their geographical locations

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982 photos fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 as S ocellatum photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 as S ocellatum;

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