Corunastylis

Corunastylis Fitzg.

Pygmy Orchids

Robert Fitzgerald in Australian Orchids 2(3):unnumbered page, 1st (1888)

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Corunastylis species have a slender, smooth leaf, a smooth flowering stem and up to 50 small flowers in a dense spike. Like the leek orchids (Prasophyllum) flowers are inverted with the labellum above, rather than below the column.

However, in Corunastylis the lateral sepals are always widely separated rather than usually being united and the inflorescence emerges from near the top of the leaf rather than part way down.