The genus Habenaria Willd. is estimated to have
approximately 750 species and distributed in every continent of the world (Comber, 1990).
Among these, 100 species are recorded from India (Santapau and Henry, 1973) and only 1 species,
namely H. andamanica Hook. f., is reported from Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Choudhury
et al., 2011).