Corycium crispum (Thunb.) Sw. 1800

Photo courtesy of Dr Schelpe

Common Name The Curled Corycium

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in South Africa in sandy places at elevations of sea-level to 960 meters as a fairly robust, medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with lanceolate, crisped margined leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, fairly densely 5 to many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Arethusa crispa Thunb. 1794; Pterygodium crispum (Thunb.) Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Introduction to the South African Orchids Schelpe 1966; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982