Eriaxis rigida Rchb.f.1876 Photo by © Edouard Faria

part sunHot Spring

Common Name The Rigid Eriaxis

Flower Size 1.2" to 2" [3 to 5 cm]

Found in New Caledonia in open scrublands as a giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with hollow, stiff, leafy, sterile stems that occasionally can have an inflorescence on an offshoot near the apex, but normally blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, successively 1 to 2, several flowered inflorescence with very short lived flowers

Synonyms Epistephium regis-alberti Kraenzl. in H.G.Reichenbach 1900; Galeola rigida (Rchb.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societie Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide;

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