Corymborkis minima P.J.Cribb 1996

Drawings by © A Krol 2017

EARLY

Common Name The Least Corymborkis

Flower Size

Found in the Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea in riverine or old growth, lowland forests at elevations of 0 to 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a horizontal to vertical rhizome giving rise to an erect, rarely branching, one to several on a rhizome stems carrying all along the stem, spirally arranged, ovate-elliptic, acute, plicate, prominently 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on 1 to several, simple to branching basally, .08 to 2.4" [2 to 6 cm] long, terminal, horizontal to slightly pendent, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceoalte, acute, as long as the ocvary floral bracts and carrying eredt to suberect, rather small, pale greenish witha white lip and a pale brown gynostemium

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Kew Bull. 51: 355 Cribb 1996

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 299 Szlachetko, Mytnik-ejsmont, Kras, Rutowski, Baranow and Gorniak 2010 Drawing fide

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