Corymborkis harlingii Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

Drawings by © A Krol 2017

Common Name Harling's Corymborkis [Swedish Botanist - Cocollector of the type current 1920 to 2010]

Flower Size .4" [2 cm]

Found in Caldas department of Colombia of Colombia and morona Santiago depatment of Ecuador at elevations around 1600 to 1800 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with 3, elliptic-lanceoalte to lanceolate, long acuminate, plicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, axillary, branching, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with suborbicular-ovate, acuminate, , much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, resupinate, tubular flowers.

Can be confused with Corymborkis flava but C harlingii has an unconstricted lip versus constricted towards the middle, is devoid of any calli versus main lip nerve is keeled, apically rounded sepals versus acute sepals that often have a short mucro and the petals are prominently wider than the sepals versus as wide to slightly wider and the pedicellate ovary is also longer than in C flava.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 236 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawings fide

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