Corybas trilobus (Hook.f.) Rchb.f. 1871
What is known as C hypogaeum in situ New Zealand Photo by © Michael Pratt 1 - Eric Scanlen 2 - Ian St George 3 & 4 and New Zealand Native Orchids Website
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Common Name The Three Lobed Corybas - In New Zealand The Dancing Spider Orchid
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in New Zealand, Chatham Is. and the Antipodean Islands on stream-sides and damp ground in moderate shade as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with tubers giving rise to an erect, reddish, white flecked stem carrying towards the apex, a single, ovate, veined, trilobed, cordate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on basal, always under the leaf, erect, to 2.8" [to 7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Corysanthes hypogaea Colenso 1884; Corysanthes triloba (Hook.f.) Hook.f. 1864; Nematoceras hypogaeum (Colenso) Molloy, D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002; Nematoceras trilobum Hook.f. 1853
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 as Nematoceras trilobum photo fide;
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