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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Habenaria
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 5, 44. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Rein orchid
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Habenariinae;Habenaria
|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 Orchideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Habenariinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Habenaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin habena, rein or strap
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 497, 570
|treatment_page=page 581
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, terrestrial or semiaquatic, often rather succulent. <b>Roots</b> scattered along basal portion of stem, both slender and tuberous, fleshy; tuberoids usually spheroid. <b>Stems</b>: leaves basal, abruptly reduced to bracts or scattered, gradually reduced toward inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b> several, alternate, ascending to spreading, conduplicate, bases sheathing stem. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, lax to rather dense spicate racemes; bracts large and foliaceous to reduced. <b>Flowers</b> few to many, resupinate, pedicellate, sometimes showy; petals 2-lobed, lateral lobe on abaxial margin; lip 3-lobed, spurred at base; pollinaria 2; pollinia 2; viscidia free; stigma with 2 fleshy processes flanking or encircling mouth of spur. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, ellipsoid.</span><!--

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|distribution=Pantropical.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 600 (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A recently identified species, Habenaria macroceratitis, is described but not fully treated here.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ames1905c
|text=Ames, O. 1905–1922. Orchidaceae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae Issuing from the Ames Botanical Laboratory…. 7 vols. Boston and New York. Vol. 4.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lateral lobes of lip and petals greatly reduced; lip hastate-auriculate; petals auriculate on abaxial margin.
|[[Habenaria odontopetala|Habenaria odontopetala]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lateral lobes of lip and petals prominently filiform, nearly equal to or exceeding other lobes; lip conspicuously 3-lobed; petals conspicuously 2-lobed.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Spur more than 4 cm (often much more).
|[[Habenaria quinqueseta|Habenaria quinqueseta]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Spur at most 2 cm (often much shorter).
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves basal, spreading, broadly elliptic to ovate or obovate; spur slenderly clavate.
|[[Habenaria distans|Habenaria distans]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves scattered along length of stem, ascending, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or oblanceolate; spur slenderly cylindric to scarcely clavate.
|[[Habenaria repens|Habenaria repens]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Habenaria
|author=Charles J. Sheviak
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Pantropical.
|reference=ames1905c
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1186.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Habenariinae
|genus=Habenaria
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