Corycium Sw.

Terrestrial herb with undivided sometimes stalked tubers. Stem erect, leafy; leaves radical and cauline, linear or oblong. Inflorescence terminal, many-flowered, often densely spicate; bracts lanceolate. Flowers small to medium-sized, subglobose; dorsal sepal erect, narrow, concave; lateral sepals usually united, narrowed at the base and connate into a concave limb; petals obliquely falcate, curved and united with the margins of the dorsal sepal to form a hood. Lip ascending along the face of the column, narrowed into a claw below. Column short, dilated, produced in front into 2 horizontal arms.

Worldwide: 15 species in South Africa with one extending into Malawi and Tanzania.

Malawi: 1 taxon.