Associations to the word «Habenaria»

Dictionary definition

HABENARIA, noun. 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.

Wise words

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