''Stigmatodactylus elegans'', commonly known as the elegant acianthus, is a species of mosquito orchid, plants in the

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

Stigmatodactylus ''Stigmatodactylus'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has 28 currently recognized species (as of April 2025), native to China, Taiwan, Japan, the Himalayas, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, A ...

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New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

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References

* Morat, P., Jaffré, T., Tronchet, F., Munzinger, J., Pillon, Y., Veillon, J. M. & Chalopin, M. 2012. Le référentiel taxonomique Florical et les caractéristiques de la flore vasculaire indigène de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Adansonia, 34(2), pages 179-221 * Munzinger, J., Morat, Ph., Jaffré, T., Gâteblé, G., Pillon, Y., Tronchet, F., Veillon, J.-M. & Chalopin, M. 2016. FLORICAL: Checklist of the vascular indigenous flora of New Caledonia. vers. 22.IV.2016
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* elegans Endemic flora of New Caledonia Orchids of New Caledonia Plants described in 1876 Taxa named by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach {{Orchidoideae-stub