Corybas orbiculatus (Colenso) L.B.Moore 1970

Plant and Flower in situ New Zealand Photos by © Ian St George and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Cold Winter Spring

Common Name The Orbicular Corybas [refers to the leaf]

Flower Size

Found in New Zealand on permanently wet, mossy roadbanks in lowland to montane forests as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a round leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, short, single flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms *Corysanthes orbiculata Colenso 1890 publ. 1891; Nematoceras orbiculatum (Colenso) Molloy, D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 as Nematoceras orbiculatum

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