Corysanthes
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Read about Corysanthes in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Corysanthes (helmet-flower, Greek). Orchidaceae. Not to be confounded with Coryanthes. Fifteen or more terrestrial orchids of Austral., New Zeal, and Malaysia, little cult. Dwarf, delicate, tuberous-rooted or fleshy-rooted herbs, bearing a solitary broad lf. and a large solitary fl.: upper sepal large, helmet-shaped; lateral sepals free, linear or filiform; petals (sometimes wanting) smaller than lateral sepals and similar to them; lip large, tubular at base, the margins inclosing the column, the upper part extended into a broad reflexed limb; pollinia 4. C. picta, Lindl., Malaya, is 3-4 in. high: upper part of fl. deep purple and yellow, and lower part with four long awl-like segms. and a bract at base of ovary. C. limbata, Hook. f., Java, is mostly even lower, with fl. purple and white, the ovate-cordate If. with reticulating white veins. B.M. 5357. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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