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|accepted_name=Oeceoclades maculata
|accepted_authority=(Lindley) Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.,
|place=237. 1833
|year=1833
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Angraecum maculatum
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
|publication_title=Coll. Bot., plate
|publication_place=15 and text on facing page. 1821
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eulophia maculata
|authority=(Lindley) Reichenbach f.
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eulophidium maculatum
|authority=(Lindley) Pfitzer
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Eulophiinae;Oeceoclades;Oeceoclades maculata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Eulophiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oeceoclades]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oeceoclades maculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 640
|treatment_page=page 641
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>20–43 cm. <b>Roots</b> fibrous, white, stout. <b>Pseudobulbs</b> dark green, ovoid to orbicular, 2–5 × 1–3 cm, often concealed by imbricate fibrous sheaths or 1 closely appressed sheath, 1-leaved at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: blade nearly erect, olive green with dark green mottling, oblong-elliptic, abaxially keeled, 12–32 × 3.5–5.5 cm, succulent leathery, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> lax, 10–42 cm; peduncles erect, slender, with few remote sheaths. <b>Flowers</b> 5–15, 9–15 mm wide; sepals and petals light brown to pinkish green; sepals 8–12 × 2–3 mm; dorsal sepal linear-oblong, apex acute; lateral sepals slightly falcate; petals oblong-elliptic, 12 × 4 mm, apex acute; lip white with 2 parallel pink blotches, 9–14 × 8–12 mm, lateral lobes erect, white with thin, radiating purple lines, orbiculate, spur curved, 5 × 2 mm; column curved, white, 5–7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> pendent, elliptic-oblong, to 3.5 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=In humus under shady forests, in orchards and residential areas
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Oeceoclades maculata</i> was first discovered in the United States in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1974, and is spreading rapidly in central and southern Florida. It is not known whether it escaped from cultivation or arrived in Florida via windblown seeds from the Greater Antilles or the nearby Bahama Archipelago.</p>
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name=Oeceoclades maculata
|authority=(Lindley) Lindley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eulophia maculata;Eulophidium maculatum
|basionyms=Angraecum maculatum
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Nov.
|habitat=In humus under shady forests, in orchards and residential areas
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.,
|publication year=1833
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1316.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Eulophiinae
|genus=Oeceoclades
|species=Oeceoclades maculata
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