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Family Orchidaceae
Soldier's orchid
Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schltr.
LAWN ORCHID

Scientific names Common names
Orchis strateumatica Linn. Soldier's orchid (Engl.)
Spiranthes strateumatica Lindl. Lawn orchid (Engl.)
Adenostylis integerrima Blume Silk orchid (Engl.)
Adenostylis emarginata Blume Kinu-ran (Japanese)
Adenostylis strateumatica (L.) Ames.  
Adenostylis sulcata Lindley  
Zeuxine sulcata Lindl.  
Zeuxine emarginata Lindl.  
Zeuxine integerrima Lindl.  
Zeuxine membranacea Lindl.  
Zeuxine bracteata Wight  
Zeuxine brevifolia Wight  
Zeuxine robusta Wight  
Zeuxine tripleura Lindl.  
Zeuxine procumbens Blume  
Zeuxine strateumatica Schltr.  

 

Botany
Zeuxine strateumatica is a terrestrial orchid. Stem is 5 to 30 cm tall, erect, smooth, and leafy at the top. Leaves are 2.5 to 5 cm long, with the margins usually recurved. Spike is 1.5 to 5 cm long, and densely flowered. Flowers are white, yellow, or very pale rose. Sepals are oblong, obtuse, and membranous. Petals are oblong and obtuse. Lip is yellow, equalling the sepals, cymbiform, contracted into a short, pubescent, claw-bearing, hammer-headed terminal lobe or 2 small lobes. Column is short and the rostellum short. Anther is ovate, and the pollinia pyriform. Capsule is about 7 mm long, and ellipsoid.

Distribution
In forests at low altitudes in the Misamis and Agusan Provinces in Mindanao.
Occurs in Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, China, Assam, Japan, Java and Amboina.

Uses

Folkloric
In India, plant is used as a salep.
Tubers and pseudobulbs used as restorative.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

May 2011

IMAGE SOURCE: Archivo:Zeuxine strateumatica (Panoso).jpg / Panoso / Licencia de Documentación Libre GNU / Wikipedia

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