Corycium bicolorum (Thunb.) Sw. 1800 SECTION Corycium

Flowers in situ Cape Province South Africa

Photos by © Gavin Lawson. and The Zandvlei Trust Botany Group's plant species list Website

Common Name The Two Colored Corycium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southwestern Cape Province South Africa in fynbos at elevations of near sea level to 600 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a slender stem carrying few to numerous, crispate, narrowly lanceolate, broad based leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with deflexed, ovate acute floral bracts and spicily scented flowers.

The Photo above is of very fresh flowers of C bicolorum but most plants found do have a color contrast between new flowers and old, hence the scientific name.

Synonyms *Ophrys bicolor Thunb. 1794; Pterygodium bicolorum (Thunb.) Schltr. 1898; Pterygodium mundii Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982 photo ok; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photo fide;

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