Corybas kaiganganianus (Orchidaceae), a new, rare helmet orchid from Samar Island, Philippines

MARJORIE D. DELOS ANGELES; INOCENCIO E. BUOT JR.; CECILIA B. MORAN; ALASTAIR S. ROBINSON; DANILO N. TANDANG

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.543.2.3

Issue: Vol. 543 No. 2: 12 April 2022

Type: Article

Published: 2022-04-12

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.543.2.3

Page range: 127-134

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Corybas kaiganganianus (Orchidaceae), a new, rare helmet orchid from Samar Island, Philippines

MARJORIE D. DELOS ANGELES⁺⁻
INOCENCIO E. BUOT JR.⁺⁻
CECILIA B. MORAN⁺⁻
ALASTAIR S. ROBINSON⁺⁻
DANILO N. TANDANG⁺⁻

Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan 666303, China; Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan 666303, China

Plant Biology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños, 4031, Philippines

Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science; Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, Thomas Aquinas Research Center, University of Santo Tomas, España Boulevard, Sampaloc, Manila 1015, Philippines

National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia

Philippine National Herbarium, Botany and National Herbarium Division, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of the Philippines, T.M. Kalaw St., Ermita Manila 1000, Philippines; Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan; Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

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Abstract

Corybas Salisbury (1807: t. 83) comprises approximately 120 highly distinctive and diminutive terrestrial and lithophytic species widely distributed from India to the western Pacific (Pridgeon et al. 2001, Aldrich & Haggins 2008, Chung & Hsu 2008, Chantanaorrapint & Chantanaorrapint 2016, Govaerts et al. 2019). The Philippines has six Corybas species (Pelser et al., 2011): C. boholensis Tandang, Bustamante, Reyes & Lyon (2020a: 261), Bohol, Visayas;, C. circinatus Tandang & Bustamante (2020b: 135), central Palawan; C. geminigibbus Smith (1927: 13), Mt. Victoria, Palawan; C. laceratus Williams (1937: 54), Rizal Prov., Luzon; C. merrillii (Ames) Ames (1908: 42), Mt. Mariveles, Luzon; and C. ramosianus Dransfield in Dransfield et al. (1986: 611), Ilocos Norte Prov., Luzon. Corybas is often overlooked and understudied owing to its diminutive size and ephemeral flowers (Tandang et al. 2020a), and ongoing explorations of the Philippine Archipelago have demonstrated the merit of this observation, with several species having been newly documented and described in recent years from areas that are known to have been botanized in the past.

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