Species Information - Corybas calophyllus

Corybas calophyllus (Schltr.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19 (1923) 21

Type: Schlechter 18184 (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

• Corysanthes calophylla Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 24
• Corybas pseudocalophyllus P.Royen, Phanerog. Monogr. 16 (1983) 30, fig. 2
  - Type: NGF (Womersley & Thorne) 12607 (holo CANB; iso BRI (spirit mat.), LAE)

Terrestrial, very small, 3-4 cm high. Roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, puberulous. Leaf broadly ovate or suborbicular, shortly acuminate, base deeply cordate, glabrous, margin usually minutely, crispate-undulate, 1.8-3 cm long, below the middle 1.5-3 cm broad. Flower subsessile, erect, floral bract lanceolate-subulate, a little longer than the ovary, glabrous. Median sepal above the narrowed base obovate-cucullate, narrowly obtuse, glabrous, about 1.7 cm long. Lateral sepals linear-subulate, sharply acute, glabrous, porrect slightly decurved, 2.5 mm long. Petals very similar to the lateral sepals and equally long, porrect, slightly decurved, glabrous. Lip shorter than the median sepal, above the cucullate base expanded into a suborbicular, dorsally cucullate-incurved, retuse blade with minutely denticulate margins, in the front centre with a deep groove which has a short conical swelling inside, quite glabrous, spurs decurved, conical, subacute, conspicuous, a little longer than the lateral sepals. Column short, somewhat thickened, glabrous. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, about 0.5 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914, as Corysanthes calophylla Schltr.).

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