Corybas (plant)

Helmet orchids
Corybas pictus - a South-East Asian species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Diurideae
Subtribe:	Acianthinae
Genus:	Corybas Salisb.[1]
Corybas range map
Synonyms[1]
Corysanthes R.Br. Calcearia Blume Nematoceras Hook.f. Anzybas D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. Gastrosiphon (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones Molloybas D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. Singularybas Molloy, D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Corybas, commonly known as helmet orchids, is a genus of about 120 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Helmet orchids are small, perennial, deciduous herbs and are nearly always terrestrial. They have a single leaf at their base and a single flower on a short stalk, the flower dominated by its large dorsal sepal and labellum. Species of Corybas are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, southern China, many Pacific islands and a few sub-Antarctic islands.^[1]