Corybas stenotribonos J.B.Comber & J.Dransf. 1995 SECTION Gastrosiphon

Lip Detail

Plant and Flower in situ Sumatra

Photos by © J.B Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Cool Winter

Common Name The Slim? Corybas

Flower Size .52" [1.3 cm]

Found in northern Sumatra in dense montane forests at elevations around 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a globose tuber giving rise to a single, sessile, cordate, acute, abruptly narrowed to a very short mucro, dark green with very few lighter conspicuous veins, margins undulating to flat leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Gastrosiphon stenotribonos (J.B.Comber & J.Dransf.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide

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