Corybas limpidus

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Family Orchidaceae

Taxonomy: Corybas limpidus D.L.Jones

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Corybas sp. (Albany) L.Byrne (taxonomic synonym)
Corysanthes limpida (D.L.Jones) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), Barrett_2009 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wenk_2023_2 (1), Wheeler_2002 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 20 traits from 37 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): capsule (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 27 mm (18-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_width (numerical): 27 mm (18-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Wheeler_2002]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Wheeler_2002]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022; Wheeler_2002]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023; Wheeler_2002]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): terrestrial (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyynnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
storage_organ (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (1) [sources: Barrett_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.01 m (0.01-0.01 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2; Wheeler_2002]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wheeler_2002	8	10	J. R. Wheeler, N. G. Marchant, and M. Lewington. Flora of the south west: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. Australian Biological Resources Study ; University of Western Australia Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780642568168.
ABRS_2023	5	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Barrett_2009	2	2	S. Barrett, S. Comer, N. McQuoid, M. Porter, C. Tiller, and D. Utber. Identification and Conservation of Fire Sensitive Ecosystems and Species of the South Coast Natural Resource Management Region.. government. Department of Conservation and Land Management, South Coast Region, Western Australia, 2009.
WAH_2023_2	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wenk_2023_2	1	1	E. Wenk and D. Coleman. “Unpublished: Rain and flood-related flowering cues for Australia's flora, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2023.