Habenaria crinifera is a terrestrial orchid that grows in the dense moist deciduous forest, evergreen forest, and grasslands of the Western
Ghats. Megasporogenesis and development of female gametophytes in H. crinifera showed that the ovary is inferior and unilocular with
many ovules born on the parietal placenta. The ovules were found to be anatropous, bitegmic, and tenuinucellate. The development of the
female gametophyte confirms the monosporic 8-nucleate type in H. crinifera.