Corybas arachnoideus (Schltr.) Schltr. 1923 SECTION Calcearia Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Spider-Like Corybas

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in mossy clearings at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a patent, ovate, cordate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, subsessile, single flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate, acuminate bract.

Schlechter states that the flowers are whitish with a broad red band on the lip that runs parellel to the margin.

Synonyms Calcearia arachnoidea (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; *Corysanthes arachnoidea Schltr. 1911;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Corysanthes arachnoidea Drawing fide;

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