Satyrium breve Rolfe

Terrestrial herb, 10 - 60 cm tall. Foliage leaves 4 on a separate sterile shoot, lanceolate, up to 30 × 2 cm, lower leaves sheath-like. Flowering stem with 5-8 leaves along the stem, erect, lanceolate, up to 25 × 5 cm, largest in the middle. Inflorescence densely few-many-flowered, often short and pyramidal in shape, particularly when young. Flowers pale-deep pink to purple-red, sometimes with darker streaks. Lip convex with a wide mouth, 6-16 mm long, apex acute, often reflexed; sepals and petals pointing forward; spurs 2-15.5 mm long, blunt, parallel to the ovary.

Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe