• 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 strateumatica (L.) Schltr.
• Common name : Schlechter soldier's Orchid, Centipede Grass Orchid
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : January-March
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Thane district, Sindhudurg district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Sambalpur district
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, China, Java, Myanmar, Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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 strateumatica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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