Corsia torricellensis
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Corsia torricellensis is a loose leaf green plant type from the family of Corsiaceae . It wasfirst describedin 1905 by Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter and was the second known species in the genus.
features
Like all species of the genus also has Corsia torricellensis the photosynthesis abandoned and therefore forms no chlorophyll more. Instead, it lives myco-heterotrophically on a fungus .
Corsia torricellensis is an unbranched and upright herbaceous perennial plant . Two to three, 9 to 12 centimeters long stems sprout from the short, creeping rhizome . The foliage is reduced to scale leaves and grows alternately along the entire stem.
The reddish single flowers are terminal and have a diameter of 1.6 centimeters. Of the six petals (three each in two petal circles ) five are thread-like to linear, protrude almost horizontally, the top sixth, the labellum , is enlarged and heart-shaped. It surrounds the flower bud and, after opening, covers the other flower organs protectively.
Distribution area
Corsia torricellensis is native to the north-eastern part of New Guinea in the forests of the Torricelli Mountains at altitudes of 1000 meters.
literature
Much of the information in this article has been obtained from the following sources:
- Karl Moritz Schumann , Karl Lauterbach : Supplements to the flora of the German protected areas in the South Seas with the exclusion of Samoa and the Carolines , Leipzig, 1905, p. 74 online version