Corybas aconitiflorus Salisb. 1807

Plant and Flower ensite Photo courtesy of Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussies Website

EARLY

Common Name The Acontium-Like Corybas

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania at elevations of 10 to 1000 meters in moist heath and shrubby woodlands to sheltered areas in open forests as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a globose tuber giving rise to a very short stem carrying a single, basal, cordate, round, apically bilobed leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence with the flower sitting on the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 2 1999 photo; Orchids of Australia Riley & Banks 2002; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------