New Zealand Native Orchids
 
 

General Forest Spider Orchids


     
Corybas oblongus

Habitat: forest, clay banks, usually in moderate shade. Throughout.

Key features: pale, frilly edge to the dark crimson, tubular labellum and the thin, undulate to smooth edged red-veined leaf.


 
Corybas cryptanthus

Habitat: deep litter and debris; often with C. trilobus or C. cheesemanii. Widespread.

Key features: white flower buried in the surface litter.



 
Corybas acuminatus

Habitat: damp, shaded forest, ofter high rainfall. Throughout.

Key features: thin, wavy sharp-pointed leaf and flower with long point to dorsal sepal parallelled by the thin sepals.


 
Corybas macranthus

Habitat: dry or well drained places, high fertility; lowland to montane. Throughout.

Key features: dark widely flared labellum, flower hidden below leaf.



Helmet Orchids Spider Orchid Key Corybas trilobus aggegate
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