Corybas umbonatus (Schltr.) Schltr. 1923 SECTION Calcearia Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Bulging Corybas

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing terrestrial with a broadly ovate to suborbicular, deeply cordate, glabrous, acuminate, dark velvet green with bright pink veining leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, subsessile, single flowered inflorescence with a lanceolate-subulate floral bract.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white marked with dark red inside and pink tubercles on the lip.

Synonyms Calcearia umbonata (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; *Corysanthes umbonata Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Corysanthes umbonata Drawing fide;

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