NOUN | plant | Habenaria, genus Habenaria | chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes |
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Meaning | chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis. | |
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Synonym | genus Habenaria | |
Member of | Orchidaceae, family Orchidaceae, orchid family | enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks / rootstocks and unusual flowers |
Members | fringed orchis, fringed orchid | Any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip |
frog orchid | Any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria | |
rein orchid, rein orchis | Any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip | |
Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
Spanish | genus habenaria, habenaria | |
Catalan | genus habenaria, habenaria |
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