Corycium excisum Lindl. 1839

Inflorescence Photo by © Marland Holderness and his Flickr Website

Common Name The Cut Out Corycium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in SW Cape Province South Africa at elevations around 150 meters as a small to medium sized, fairly robust, cool growing terrestrial with linear leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Pterygodium excisum (Lindl.) Schltr.1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe and Hall 1982

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