Corybas aduncus (Schltr.) Schltr. 1923 SECTION Gastrosiphon Drawing by © N H S Howcroft and The Papua New Guinea Orchid News Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Hooked Corybas

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a broadly ovate, shortly acuminate to apiculate, cordate-amplexicaul basally leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, sessile, glabrous, single flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate-subulate, acuminate bract.

Synonyms *Corysanthes adunca Schltr. 1911; Gastrosiphon aduncus (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

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

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