Corybas barbarae D.L.Jones 1988 Photo © courtesy of Graham Corbin and ANOS KABI website

Common Name or Meaning Barbara's Corybas - in Australia The Fairy Lanterns Orchid

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.4” [3 to 3.5 cm]

Found in Norfolk Island, New South Wales and Queensland in open eucalypt forest slopes at elevations of 5 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a cordate, dark green to reddish green above, silvery green to reddish beneath leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, very short, single flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Australian Orchids Jones 2006 photo fide

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