Corymborkis flava (Sw.) Kuntze 1891 Photo by © Roberto Takase

Another Flower angle Photo by © Gustavo Righelato

Common Name The Yellow Corymborkis

Flower Size

Found in Cuba, Jamaica, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina in dense tropical forests at elevations around 300 to 1800 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, stout, subterete, cane-like stems enveloped completely by imbricating, tubular, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying sub-plicate, elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, alternate leaves that blooms in the spring on axillary, sub-corymbose, to 4" [10 cm] long, paniculate, each branch 2" [5 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Chloidia decumbens Lindl. 1840; Chloidia flava (Sw.) Rchb.f. 1863; Corymbis decumbens (Lindl.) Cogn. 1895; Corymbis flava (Sw.) Hemsl. 1884; Corymborkis decumbens (Lindl.) L.O.Williams 1939; Macrostylis decumbens (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1854; Neottia flava (Sw.) Sw. 1806; *Serapias flava Sw. 1788; Stenorrhynchos flavum (Sw.) Spreng. 1826; Tomotris flava (Sw.) Raf. 1837; Tropidia decumbens (Lindl.) Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Corymbis flava; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide; Flora De Venezuela, Volumen XV Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing ok; Die Orchideen #5 17-20 tafel 6 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 029 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escober 1993 drawing/photo ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing ok; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo ok; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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