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.