Corybas taiwanensis T.P. Lin & S.Y. Leu

Plant: small terrestrial herb 

Tuber: roundish, 3-4 mm by 3mm 

Rhizome: terete, pilose, 1.5cm long, 1-1.2 mm in diameter 

Stem: erect, terete, glabrous, about 1.7 cm long, 1.5 mm in diameter 

Cataphyll: scale-like 

Leaf: solitary, cordate, acute, 1.5cm by 1.6cm, with reticulate venation 

Peduncle: almost none  ("flower almost sessile")

Bract: lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long 

Ovary: short, about 3mm long 

Flower: terminal, solitary, almost sessile, light violet-red 

Dorsal sepals: linear, incurved, 1.3cm by 2 mm, obtuse 

Lateral sepals: filiform, 1 cm long (assumed reversed) 

Lateral petals: filiform, located on the ventral side of the lip, coherent at base; coherent part .3mm long, the divergent part 1cm long 

Labellum: rather large, tubular, rotund-elliptic when flattened out, 1.7cm by 1cm, dilated into a broad limb strongly recurved in the medium region; disc marked with several parallel dark red striations and fimbriate on the front margin   

Spurs: deeply bilobed to form 2 saccate horns, 3 mm long   

Column: oblong, 3.5 mm long; pollinia 4, in pairs, granular, 1.2 mm long, yellow; viscid disc elliptic; stigma protruding, cupular.  

Type: TAOYUAN, Nachiehshan, S. Y. Leu 2093, Aug. 4 1974, deposited in the herbarium of National Taiwan University (type, TAI).  

Ecology: Shaded mossy cliff in a Chamaecyparis forest at about 1400 m.

Elevation: 1400 m