Habenaria section Macrurae Kraenzl. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 55, 91 (1892).
Description:
Attractive plants with leafy stems and white scented flowers. Petals bilobed, lip trilobed with broad segments. Confusingly, does not include H. macrura.
Type species: Habenaria perbella Rchb.f. (Ethiopia).
Species:
| Habenaria argentea P.J.Cribb | Zambia. |
| Habenaria macroplectron Schltr. | S. Zaïre to Angola. |
| Habenaria macruroides Summerh. | Tanzania to Zambia. |
| Habenaria mirabilis Rolfe | Tanzania to Zambia. |
| Habenaria perbella Rchb.f. | Ethiopia to Eritrea. |
| Habenaria walleri Rchb.f. | Trop. Africa. |
World Checklist of Monocotyledons. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots/ accessed 12/24/2009