Satyrium amblyosaccos Schltr.

A terrestrial herb 2–6 dm. high, only slightly hairy apart from the roots.. Tubers ovoid to fusiform-cylindrical, 2–3.5 cm. long, 6–18 mm. in diameter, ± tomentose.. Roots slender, flexuous, pubescent.. Sterile stem short, 3–4-leaved; lower 2–3 leaves sheath-like, short, the upper leaf lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, up to 13–18 cm. long and 3–4 cm. broad.. Flowering stem erect, slender to rather stout, leafy along its length; leaves 5–9, the lowermost 1 or 2 sheath-like, acute, the middle ones elliptical-lanceolate or elliptical-oblanceolate, acute, the largest up to 6–17 cm. long and 2–7 cm. broad, decreasing in size up the stem.. Inflorescence cylindrical, 5–21 cm. long, 2–3.5 cm. in diameter, loosely to rather densely many-flowered; bracts reflexed, lanceolate, acute, 1–3 cm. long.. Flowers half-spreading, sessile, whitish or yellowish-green, rarely tinged rose; ovary straight, 5–9 mm. long.. Sepals and petals sharply deflexed, united with one another in their basal half and to the lip in their basal third.. Intermediate sepal oblong-oblanceolate, rounded, 6–10 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. broad; laterals obliquely oblong-elliptical, a little shorter but 2–3.5 mm. broad.. Petals narrowly oblanceolate or ligulate, a little shorter than the sepals, less than 1 mm. broad.. Lip erect, very convex, with a wide mouth and erect narrowed apex, 6–9 mm. long, somewhat hairy inside.. Spurs very short and rounded, 1.5–3 mm. long, ± 2 mm. in diameter.. Column slender, slightly curved, the stalk longer than the fertile part, long-hairy in the lower part; stigma semi-orbicular, concave, 1 mm. high and 1.5 mm. broad, rostellum porrect, truncate and very shortly 3-toothed in front.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in woodland between 1,100-2,250 m above sea level.