J. RENZ

Plants small with decumbent rhizome. Stem leafy. Inflorescence ± dense, few to many flowered. Flowers small, resupinate. Perianth segments subequal. Petals adherent to dorsal sepal, forming a hood; lateral sepals spreading. Labellum fleshy, somewhat saccate and with 2 lamellae or callosities at base, above the middle ± contracted, often produced into broadened, sometimes bibbed apex. Column short; anther dorsal; rostellum bifid; pollinia granulose, attached to a viscid gland, which is inserted between the rostellum arms; stigmas 2, separate.

About 70 species mainly in tropical Asia and also in tropical Africa. 1 species in Pakistan.

Lower Taxon

• Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schlechter

Related Synonym(s):

• Adonostylis strateumatica (L.) Ames = Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schlechter
• Orchis strateumatica L. = Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schlechter
• Pterygodium sulcatum Roxb. = Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schlechter
• Zeuxine sulcata (Roxb.) Lindl = Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schlechter