Corycium carnosum (Lindl.) Rolfe 1913 SECTION Carnosum Kurziel & HP Linder

Plant and Flower in situ South Africa Photos by © Tyrone Genade

Another Plant in situ Cape Province South Africa Photo by © Marland Holderness and his Flickr Website

EARLY

Common Name The Fleshy Corycium [refers to the flowers]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Southernmost South Africa in fynbos from near sea level to 1500 meters often in seepage areas as a cool to cold growing, medium sized terrestrial with an erect stem carrying several narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves becoming black with drying and blooming in the spring and early summer on a terminal erect, to 9.6" [to 24 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts that are longer than the ovaries

Synonyms *Pterygodium carnosum Lindl. 1839; Pterygodium patersoniae Schltr.1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999

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