• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Zeuxine longilabris (Lindl.) Trimen
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen, shola and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills in deep or partial shade of evergreen forests or sholas on the floor.
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Thane district, Palghar district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Zeuxine longilabris. Downloaded on 5 June 2025.

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