Corybas muluensis J.Dransf. 1986

Photo by © Digital Helen and the Corybas website

Side View of Flower

Photo by © J J Wood 1994

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Common Name The Mt Mulu Corybas [A Mountain in Sarawak]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Sabah and Sarawak Borneo on mossy banks in mossy montane forests at elevations of 1350 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a subangular stem enveloped by a basal sheath carrying a single, apical, sessile, heart shaped, acuminate, flat with smooth margins, pale green leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, single flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001;

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