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|accepted_name=Zeuxine strateumatica
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Schlechter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=45: 394. 1911
|year=1911
}}
|common_names=Lawn orchid;soldier orchid
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Orchis strateumatica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 943. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Goodyerinae;Zeuxine;Zeuxine strateumatica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Goodyerinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zeuxine]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Zeuxine strateumatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 517
|treatment_page=page 519
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>4–25 cm. <b>Roots</b> clustered at nodes of subterranean part of stem and rhizome, short. <b>Stems</b> from decumbent base, erect or ascending, greenish, tinged with purple or brown, slender. <b>Leaves</b> 5–12, spirally arranged, sessile, sheathing; blade erect, dark green, linear to narrowly lanceolate, keeled, 1–9 × 0.3–0.8 cm, apex long-acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 8–50-flowered; rachis 1–8 cm; floral bracts green, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 15 × 4 mm. <b>Flowers</b> white with prominent yellow lip; dorsal sepal concave, ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4–7 × 2–3 mm, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblique, ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4–6 × 2–3 mm, apex obtuse to acute; petals oblong-lanceolate, falcate, 4–6 × 1.5–2 mm, converging with dorsal sepal; lip adnate to base of column, sessile, base concave, subsaccate or cymbiform, containing 2 glands, lamina ± contracted in middle, abruptly dilated at apex, not extending beyond lateral sepals, 4 × 3 mm, fleshy; column 1.5 mm; anther between 2 large stigmatic processes, scarious; pollinia yellow; ovary sessile, stout, 7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> suberect, ovoid to ellipsoid, 7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22–64, 30–56, 50, 100.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall–winter (Oct–Jan), occasionally spring.
|habitat=Moist areas in a variety of habitats, including lawns, roadsides, nurseries, farm fields, occasionally hammocks and pinelands
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Ala.(?);Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies;native;Asia;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Given the weedy nature of these plants, the apparently high fruit set (C. A. Luer 1972, plate 36), and the spontaneous reproduction in greenhouses (O. Ames 1938), <i>Zeuxine strateumatica</i> is very likely autogamous or apomictic. Five cytotypes whose floral morphology overlapped considerably have been identified (S. P. Vij and N. Vohra 1974). In all but the 2n = 20 cytotype, meiotic behavior was abnormal.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Zeuxine strateumatica
|authority=(Linnaeus) Schlechter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Orchis strateumatica
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering fall–winter (Oct–Jan), occasionally spring.
|habitat=Moist areas in a variety of habitats, including lawns, roadsides, nurseries, farm fields, occasionally hammocks and pinelands
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Ala.(?);Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies;native;Asia;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1911
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Goodyerinae
|genus=Zeuxine
|species=Zeuxine strateumatica
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