Editing Anacamptis (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Anacamptis_fragrans_(flower_spike).jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Anacamptis coriophora]]''
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Anacamptis
| authority = [[Louis Claude Richard|Rich.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
Probably hundreds; see [[#Selected species|text]]
| synonyms =
''Vermeulenia'' <small>Á.Löve & D.Löve</small><br />
''Anteriorchis'' <small>E.Klein & Strack</small>
}}

'''''Anacamptis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the orchid [[family (biology)|family]] ([[Orchidaceae]]); it is often abbreviated as '''Ant''' in [[horticulture]]. This genus was established by [[Louis Claude Richard]] in 1817; the [[type species]] is the [[pyramidal orchid]] (''A. pyramidalis'') and it nowadays contains about one-third of the [[species]] placed in the "[[wastebin taxon|wastebin genus]]" ''[[Orchis]]'' before this was split up at the end of the 20th century,<ref>Bateman & Hollingsworth (2004)</ref> among them many that are of [[hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] origin. The genus' [[scientific name]] is derived from the Greek word ''anakamptein'', meaning "to bend backwards".

These terrestrial orchids occur on [[grassland]]s, [[limestone]] or [[chalk]] deposits, or on [[dune]]s in [[Eurasia]], from the [[Mediterranean]] region to [[Central Asia]].