Corybas dienemus D.L.Jones 1993 Photo by © The Up Close Australian Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The ? Corybas - In Australia The Windswept Helmut Orchid

Flower Size 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm]

Found on Macquarie Island in wet bogs at elevations of sealevel to 30 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, dark green above, silvery green beneath, thick textured leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Corysanthes dienema (D.L.Jones) Szlach. 2003; Nematoceras dienemum (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones, M.A.Clem. & Molloy 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Australian Orchids Jones 2006 as Nematoceras dienemum photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;

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