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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|80|0}}[[Late Cretaceous]] – Recent
| image = Haeckel Orchidae.jpg
| image_caption = Colour plate frae [[Ernst Haeckel]]'s ''{{lang|de|[[Kunstformen der Natur]]}}'', 1906
| taxon = Orchidaceae
| authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122630309/abstract |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525104318/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract |dead-url=yes |archive-date=25 May 2017 |format=PDF |accessdate=26 June 2013 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x }} {{Cite web |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-07-17 |archive-date=2017-05-25 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525104318/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
| type_genus = ''[[Orchis]]''
| type_genus_authority = [[Tourn.]] ''ex'' [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Subfaimilies
| subdivision =
* [[Apostasioideae]] <small>Horaninov</small>
* [[Cypripedioideae]] <small>Kosteletzky</small>
* [[Epidendroideae]] <small>Kosteletzky</small>
* [[Orchidoideae]] <small>Eaton</small>
* [[Vanilloideae]] <small>Szlachetko</small>
| range_map = Orchidaceae.png
| range_map_caption = Distribution range o faimily Orchidaceae
}}
'''Orchidaceae''' is a diverse an widespread  [[faimily (biology)|faimily]] o flouerin plants wi blooms that are eften colourfu an eften fragrant, commonly kent as the '''orchid faimily'''. Alang wi the [[Asteraceae]], thay are ane o the twa lairgest faimilies o flouerin plants, wi atween 21,950 an 26,049 currently acceptit [[species]], foond in 880 [[genus|genera]].<ref name="Stevens">{{cite web |author=P. F. Stevens |date=2001 onwards |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website Version 9 |date=June 2008 |url=http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/welcome.html |publisher=[[Missouri Botanical Garden]] |accessdate=26 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=WCSP>{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/|title=WCSP |work= World Checklist of Selected Plant Families|accessdate=2010}}</ref> Selecting which of the two families is larger is still under debate, as concrete numbers on such enormous families are constantly in flux. Regardless, the nummer o orchid species equals mair nor twice the nummer o [[bird]] species, an aboot fower times the nummer o [[mammal]] species. The faimily an aa encompasses aboot 6–11% o aw [[seed plants]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Yohan Pillon & Mark W. Chase |year=2007 |title=Taxonomic exaggeration and its effects on orchid conservation |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_conservation-biology_2007-02_21_1/page/263 |journal=[[Conservation Biology (journal)|Conservation Biology]] |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=263–265 |doi=10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00573.x |pmid=17298532}}</ref> The lairgest genera are ''[[Bulbophyllum]]'' (2,000 species), ''[[Epidendrum]]'' (1,500 species), ''[[Dendrobium]]'' (1,400 species) an ''[[Pleurothallis]]'' (1,000 species).