Zeuxine cambodiana (Gagnep.) Ormerod 2018 A, plant; B, flower; C, flower minus tepals; D, petal; E, labellum; F, column, ventral. Drawn from holotype

Drawing by Paul Ormerod and The Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2018, pp. 269–277 2018 Website

Common Name The Cambodian Zeuxine

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cambodia at elevations below 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial with a terete, slender, short rhizome giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 5 to 10, obliquely oblong-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, acute, pwetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, pubescent, 3.48 to 6.92" [8.7 to 17.3 cm] long overall, peduncle 2.08 to 4.28" [5.2 to 10.7 cm] long, with 2 to 3, lax to scattered sheathing bracts, rachis 1.4 to 3.28" [3.5 to 8.1 cm] long, subdensely to densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white rose, slightly fragrant flowers.

Synonyms *Zeuxine leucochila var cambodiana Gagnep 1934;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2018, pp. 269–277 Ormerod 2018 Drawing fide

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