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Glassy Spider Orchid

Corybas vitreus

Glassy Spider Orchid
Photo: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, CC BY 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
New Zealand
Climate
subtropical

About

Corybas vitreus is a species of orchid endemic to New Zealand, and first described in 2016 by Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach.

Where it grows

It is endemic to New Zealand and found on both the North (in the south) and South Islands at altitudes of from 600 to 1300 m, in beech and Kunzea forests growing in the leaf litter.

Other Corybas plants

Swamp helmet orchid · Nodding helmet orchid · Cradle Orchid · Dancing spider orchid · Fairy lanterns · Swamp helmet orchid · Red helmet orchid · Cheesemans spider orchid · Corybas circinatus · Corybas confusus · Hidden spider orchid · Corybas dentatus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corybas vitreus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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