!Corymborkis corymbis Thouars 1822
Photo by © Fred Henze
Plant and Flowers in situ Reunion
Photo by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
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Common Name The Corymb Carrying Corymborkis
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Province, Natal, Mauritus, Reunion and Madagascar in deep shade in dense forests at elevations of 100 to 1400 meters as a giant sized, hot to cool growing, mycoheterotrophic orchid with semi-woody stems carrying narrowly ovate to elliptic, wavy margined leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect to drooping, terminal to axillary, to 16 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Corymbis bolusiana Schltr. 1923; Corymbis corymbosa Thouars 1822; Corymbis leptantha Kraenzl. ex Engl. 1895; Corymbis thouarsii Rchb.f. 1849; Corymbis welwitschii Rchb.f. 1865; Corymborkis corymbosa (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Corymborkis disticha Lindl. 1854; Corymborkis thouarsii (Rchb.f.) Blume 1859; Corymborkis welwitschii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963 as C welwitischii; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as C disticha; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as C welwitschii; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as C corymbosa; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Field Guide To Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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