Corycium carnosum (Lindl.) Rolfe 1913 SECTION Carnosum Kurziel & HP Linder

Plant and Flower in situ South Africa Photos by © Tyrone Genade

Another Plant in situ Cape Province South Africa Photo by © Marland Holderness and his Flickr Website

EARLY

Common Name The Fleshy Corycium [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southwestern and southern Cape Province South Africa in fynbos from near sea level to 1500 meters often in seepage areas as a cold growing, medium sized terrestrial with an erect stem carrying several narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves becoming black with drying and blooming in the spring and early summer on a terminal erect, to 9.6" [to 24 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts that are longer than the ovaries and carrying sweet vanilla scented flowers

Synonyms *Pterygodium carnosum Lindl. 1839; Pterygodium patersoniae Schltr.1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Pterygodium carnosum; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #1 2002 as Pterygodium carnosum photo fide; The Cape Orchids Vol 2 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photo fide;

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