| Corsia | |
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| Corsia ornata from Bird's Head Peninsula, Western New Guinea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Corsiaceae |
| Genus: | Corsia Becc.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Corsia ornata | |
| Species | |
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Corsia is a little-studied plant genus from the monocotyledon family Corsiaceae. It was first described in 1877 by Italian naturalist Odoardo Beccari and contains 25 species, all of which lack chlorophyll and parasitize fungi for nutrition. All 25 species are distributed through New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and Queensland, Australia.
- ^ O. Beccari (1878). Malesia, raccolta d'osservazioni lese e papuano. Vol. 1. p. 238.