Botanical name

Satyrium rhynchanthum

Family

Orchidaceae
Satyrium rhynchanthum
Satyrium rhynchanthum
Satyrium rhynchanthum
Satyrium rhynchanthum
Satyrium rhynchanthum
Satyrium rhynchanthum

Description

Plants up to 40cm tall. Leaves spreading to partly erect, linear, lanceolate. Inflorescence rather dense with 10-40 flowers, white to pale-pink with dark purple spots inside the lip, spur and on petal bases. Spurs conical, 5-6mm long facing backwards. Bracts fully deflexed. 

Habitat

In fynbos marshes or moist slopes

Flower Date

November to December - after fire