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			Tainia (Greek, band or fillet, alluding to the shape of the lip). Orchidaceae. Terrestrial warmhouse orchids. Sterile st. from a many-sheathed rhizome finally thickened into a pseudobulb: lf. single, terminal, large, long-petioled: flowering scapes arising from the rhizome, tall, leafless, base few-sheathed, bearing a simple terminal raceme: fls. pedicellate, sparse, rather large or medium-sized; sepals about the same length, narrow, acutish to acuminate; petals similar to the rear sepal or narrower; labellum affixed to the foot of the column, erect, gibbous at base, lateral lobes erect and parallel or clasping the column, the middle lobe spreading, short, broad; pollinia 8.—About 14 species, India, S. China, and Malaya.
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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Tainia''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
| tribus = [[Arethuseae]]
| subtribus = [[Bletiinae]]
| alliance = Tainia
| genus = '''''Tainia'''''
| genus_authority = [[Karl Blume|Blume]]
| type_species = ''Tainia speciosa''
| type_species_authority = [[Karl Blume|Blume]]
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
*''[[Tainia angustifolia]]''
*''[[Tainia hookeriana]]''
*''[[Tainia speciosa]]''
*''[[Tainia sutepensis]]''
*etc.
}}
::''For the Greek headband, see [[tainia (costume)]]''
'''''Tainia''''' is a [[genus]] of terrestrial [[orchid]]s ([[family (biology)|family]] Orchidaceae) distributed from [[India]], [[China]], [[Southeast Asia]] to [[New Guinea]], the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[Australia]].

===[[Synonymy]]===
The genera '''''Ania''''' [[John Lindley|Lindl.]], '''''Ascotainia''''' [[Ridl.]] and '''''Mitopetalum''''' [[Karl Blume|Blume]] are generally included in ''Tainia''. The genus ''[[Mischobulbum]]'' is also sometimes considered a synonym.
[[Category:Orchid genera]]

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