Species Information - Corybas torricellensis

Corybas torricellensis (Schltr.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19 (1923) 22

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Synonyms:

• Corysanthes torricellensis Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911) 23
  - Type: Schlechter 20227 (holo B, lost)
• Calcearia torricellensis (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Orchadian 13 (2002) 446

Basionym: Corysanthes torricellensis

Terrestrial, very small, 3-4 cm high. Roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, puberulous. Leaf ovate, acuminate, deeply cordate, glabrous, 1.5-2.5 cm long, below the middle 0.7-1.5 cm broad. Flower subsessile, erect. Floral bracts lanceolate-subulate, more than twice as long as the ovary. Median sepal at base shortly clawed, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, dorsally with thickened mid-vein, about 2 cm long. Lateral sepals decurved, linear-subulate, sharply acute, glabrous, about 2 cm long. Petals as long as and similar to the lateral sepals, ascending. Lip above the cucullate base expanded into a large, glabrous, suborbicular, apiculate blade with minutely and densely serrulate margins, with two small swellings next to the opening of the throat, in the middle towards the opening of the throat with a distinct groove, with short, conical, falcate, diverging, narrowly obtuse spurs. Column short, somewhat thickened glabrous. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, 0.3 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914, as Corysanthes torricellensis Schltr.).

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