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

Common Name The Bearded Corybas

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a broadly ovate, cordate, aristate-apiculate leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate-subulate, acuminate bract.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale whitish with purple stripes.

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

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

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