- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›monocots
- ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
- ›Orchids
- ›Pogonias and vanilla orchids
- ›vanilla orchid tribe
- ›Eriaxis
Eriaxis rigida
Eriaxis is a monotypic genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae) belonging to the subfamily Vanilloideae. The sole species is Eriaxis rigida, endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relative is Clematepistephium, also endemic to New Caledonia.
From the article Eriaxis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Eriaxis rigida is known only from New Caledonia. It is widespread on the main island of Grande Terre, but also occurs on the Belep Islands in the north and the Isle of Pines in the south. It grows in metal-rich, nutrient poor soils in humid forests and maquis shrubland at altitudes from sea level up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Eriaxis rigida in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 483702.