Corycium dracomontanum Parkman & Schelpe 1982
Plant in situ South Africa Photos by © Cameron & Rhoda McMaster and their African Bulbs - South African Orchid Page
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Common Name The Drakensberge Mountains Corycium
Flower Size .25" [.65 cm]
Found in Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland, Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal South Africa in grasslands often near water at elevations of 1200 to 2300 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with undivided, sometimes stalked tubers giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying cauline, lanceolate, three veined, suberect to sometimes spreading, acute, upper becoming bract-like leaves that are longer than the ovaries blooming on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, densely many [20 to 50] flowered, cylindrical, spicate inflorescence carrying toffee scented, globular flowers that are spirally arranged and turn black in a short time
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos
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