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Chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes
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habenaria
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habenaria \Habenaria\ prop. n. A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; it includes species formerly placed in the genus Gymnadeniopsis . Syn: genus Habenaria .
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Habenaria , commonly called bog orchids , are a far ranging genus of orchid . There are approximately 800-1000 species of Habenaria , native to every continent except Antarctica, in both tropical and temperate zones.