Corybas carinatus (J.J.Sm.) Schltr.1923

Photo by David Kuehn ©

Corybas cf carinatus western Malesia

Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name or Meaning The Carinate Corybas

Flower Size .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Malayisa, Java, Borneo and Sumatra in wet montane forests at elevations of 910 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a globose to oval, long pubescent tuber giving rise to an erect, pubscent beneath the ground but glabrous above stem enveloped by a basal, oblong-ovate, acuminate, basally clasping sheath and carrying a single, sessile, cordate, basal lobes clasping leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, single flowered inflorescence with an erect, linear-subulate floral bract

Synonyms Calcearia carinata (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Corybas johannis-winkleri J.J.Sm. 1927; Corybas johannis-winkleri var. interruptus J.J.Sm. 1927; *Corysanthes carinata J.J.Sm. 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra J.B. Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo good; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo good; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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