- Family:
- Orchidaceae Juss.
Zeuxine Lindl.
[FTEA]
Orchidaceae, V. S. Summerhayes. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Morphology General Habit
- Terrestrial herbs, with long creeping rhizomes and erect leafy stems
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves sessile or petiolate, linear or ovate, with broad sheathing bases
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence terminal; scape with few sheaths; raceme long and slender with many small flowers, or short with fewer larger flowers
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers hardly opening
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals connivent with dorsal sepal to form a hood; lateral sepals enclosing base of lip
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Labellum
- Lip saccate at the base with 2 calli; mid-lobe shortly clawed or sessile, entire or bilobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Column
- Column very short, with or without wings in front; 2 lateral stigmatic lobes; rostellum deeply divided; pollinia pyriform, with caudicle attached by an oblong viscidium to the rostellum.
[FZ]
Orchidaceae, I. la Croix & P.J. Cribb. Flora Zambesiaca 11:1. 1995
- Morphology General Habit
- Terrestrial herb with creeping rhizomes and erect leafy stems.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a terminal raceme; flowers small or very small, not opening widely.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals adnate to the dorsal sepal and forming a hood with it; lateral sepals enclosing the base of the lip.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Labellum
- Lip saccate at the base with 2 calli.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Column
- Rostellum deeply divided; pollinia pyriform, the caudicle attached to the rostellum by an oblong viscidium. Column very short, sometimes winged in front, with 2 lateral stigma lobes.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Ogasawara-shoto
Introduced into:
Alabama, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil Southeast, California, Cuba, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Jamaica, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Texas
- Zeuxine affinis (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hook.f.
- Zeuxine africana Rchb.f.
- Zeuxine agyokuana Fukuy.
- Zeuxine amboinensis (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine andamanica King & Pantl.
- Zeuxine arisanensis Hayata
- Zeuxine baliensis J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine ballii P.J.Cribb
- Zeuxine bifalcifera J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine blatteri C.E.C.Fisch.
- Zeuxine boninensis Tuyama
- Zeuxine bougainvilleana Ormerod
- Zeuxine cambodiana (Gagnep.) Ormerod
- Zeuxine chowdheryi Av.Bhattacharjee & Sabap.
- Zeuxine clandestina Blume
- Zeuxine cordata (Lindl.) Ormerod
- Zeuxine diversifolia Ormerod
- Zeuxine elatior Schltr.
- Zeuxine elmeri (Ames) Ames
- Zeuxine elongata Rolfe
- Zeuxine erimae Schltr.
- Zeuxine eryliae Ormerod
- Zeuxine exilis Ridl.
- Zeuxine flava (Wall. ex Lindl.) Trimen
- Zeuxine fritzii Schltr.
- Zeuxine gengmanensis (K.Y.Lang) Ormerod
- Zeuxine gilgiana Kraenzl. & Schltr.
- Zeuxine glandulosa King & Pantl.
- Zeuxine goodyeroides Lindl.
- Zeuxine gracilis (Breda) Blume
- Zeuxine integrilabella C.S.Leou
- Zeuxine kantokeiensis Tatew. & Masam.
- Zeuxine kutaiensis J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine lancifolia (Ames) Ormerod
- Zeuxine leucoptera Schltr.
- Zeuxine leytensis (Ames) Ames
- Zeuxine lindleyana A.N.Rao
- Zeuxine longilabris (Lindl.) Trimen
- Zeuxine lunulata P.J.Cribb & J.Bowden
- Zeuxine macrorhyncha Schltr.
- Zeuxine madagascariensis Schltr.
- Zeuxine marivelensis (Ames) Ames
- Zeuxine membranacea Lindl.
- Zeuxine mindanaensis (Ames) Ormerod
- Zeuxine montana Schltr.
- Zeuxine mooneyi S.Misra
- Zeuxine nervosa (Wall. ex Lindl.) Benth. ex Trimen
- Zeuxine niijimae Tatew. & Masam.
- Zeuxine oblonga R.S.Rogers & C.T.White
- Zeuxine odorata Fukuy.
- Zeuxine ovalifolia L.Li & S.J.Li
- Zeuxine ovata (Gaudich.) Garay & W.Kittr.
- Zeuxine palawensis Tuyama
- Zeuxine palustris Ridl.
- Zeuxine papillosa Carr
- Zeuxine parvifolia (Ridl.) K.Schum. & Fedde
- Zeuxine petakensis J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine philippinensis (Ames) Ames
- Zeuxine plantaginea (Rchb.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Drake
- Zeuxine pseudogracilis Ormerod
- Zeuxine purpurascens Blume
- Zeuxine reflexa King & Pantl.
- Zeuxine regia (Lindl.) Trimen
- Zeuxine reginasilvae Ormerod
- Zeuxine rolfeana King & Pantl.
- Zeuxine rupestris Ridl.
- Zeuxine samoensis Schltr.
- Zeuxine stammleri Schltr.
- Zeuxine stenophylla (Rchb.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Drake
- Zeuxine strateumatica (L.) Schltr.
- Zeuxine subquadrata Ormerod
- Zeuxine tenuifolia Tuyama
- Zeuxine tjiampeana J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine tonkinensis Gagnep.
- Zeuxine triangula J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine vietnamica Aver.
- Zeuxine violascens Ridl.
- Zeuxine viridiflora (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm.
- Zeuxine weberi (Ames) Ames
- Zeuxine wenzelii (Ames) Ormerod
Zeuxine Lindl. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Coll. Bot., App.: 1 (1826)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3: 1-358. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Collect. Bot. App. (1825)
- F.T.A. 7: 180. Nom. cons.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Coll. Bot., Append.: [1] (1826), as "Zeuxina"
- corr. Roeper in Linnaea 2: 528 (1827), orth. et nom. conserv.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Coll. Bot., App. No. 18 (1826 or ? 1825)
- Orch. Scel.: 9 (1826), as “ Zeuxina ”
- corr. Roeper in Linnaea 2: 528 (1827), orth. et nom. conserv.
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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