Corybas gibbifer (Schltr.) Schltr. 1923 SECTION Gastrosiphon
Photos by © Stephanie Pimm Lyon
TYPE Drawing Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Hump Carrying Corybas
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a suborbicular to broadly ovate, apiculate, cordate-amplexicaul basally leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, subsessile to very short, glabrous, single flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate-subulate, acuminate bract.
Schlechter states that the flowers are strikingly gay, the dorsal sepal is bright pink, the lip is white with dark pirple veins, the belly in front is pink , the protuberance is pink with a darker margin and the leaves are a pale green.
Synonyms *Corysanthes gibbifera Schltr. 1911; Gastrosiphon gibbiferus (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Corysanthes gibbiferum Drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 18 2016 photo fide
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