Satyrium nepalense D. Don

Plants usually robust, 20-100 cm tall, with oblong tuberoids, sometimes with stolons bearing a small tuberoids at their ends. Stem leafy below, densely covered with sheaths above. Leaves 2(-4), lanceolate to elliptic, rather fleshy, 15(-25) x 4-8 cm, acute, sheathed at base. Inflorescence densely flowered. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, longer than ovary, the upper diminishing in size, all strongly recurved. Flowers rather small, rose-pink, occasionally pure white, sweet-scented. Perianth segments recurved, subsimilar in length, up to 7 mm long; dorsal sepal linear-oblong; lateral sepals obliquely-oblong; petals linear. Labellum broadly oblong, erect, hooded, up to 9 mm long, 10 mm broad, with 2 slender spurs at base, tapering into a fine point, variable and sometimes unequal in length, 10-15 mm long. Column slightly curved, 6 mm long.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), E. Tibet, India, Ceylon, N. Burma, W. China.

Distribution: Abundant throughout Western Himalaya, eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and China. Also S. India and Sri Lanka. In the eastern Himalaya ascending above 3000 m to 4000 m, in Pakistan to 2500 m.

600-4600 m

Fl. Per.: July-November.

Satyrium nepalense is a species of orchid occurring from the Indian subcontinent to south-central China.

Satyrium neilgherrensis é uma espécie de orquídea terrestre pertencente à subtribo Satyriinae, originária de Tamil Nadu, na Índia. É planta anual, dotada de poucas raízes que apresentam tubérculos que origina caules, em regra lisos, com poucas folhas. A inflorescência comporta pequenas flores terminais não ressupinadas, com sépalas e pétalas parecidas, unidas na base. O labelo é côncavo prolongando-se em dois calcares na base, raramente quatro. A coluna é variável e auriculada e contém duas polínias.

鸟足兰（学名：Satyrium nepalense）为兰科鸟足兰属下的一个种。