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

Common Name The Mirror Corybas

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing terrestrial with a broadly ovate, deeply cordate, acuminate, pale green with rose red veining, leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate-subulate floral bract.

Schlechter states that the flowers are dark purple and the center of the lip has a rose red colored mirror and at the margin of each side a rose red spot

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

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

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