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Huntleya (personal name). Orchidaceae. Epiphytal orchids without pseudobulbs, like Zygopetalum.
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Leaves several: fls. solitary on long peduncles in the If .-axils; sepals and petals similar, spreading, the lateral sepals forming a slight chin; lip articulated to the foot of the column, the upper part ovate, concave, narrowed into a broad claw below with a fringed callus; column broadly winged at apex; pollinia 4, upon an ovate stalk.—Species 2, in Trop. Amer.
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Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

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Read about Huntleya in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Huntleya (personal name). Orchidaceae. Epiphytal orchids without pseudobulbs, like Zygopetalum.

Leaves several: fls. solitary on long peduncles in the If .-axils; sepals and petals similar, spreading, the lateral sepals forming a slight chin; lip articulated to the foot of the column, the upper part ovate, concave, narrowed into a broad claw below with a fringed callus; column broadly winged at apex; pollinia 4, upon an ovate stalk.—Species 2, in Trop. Amer.


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Huntleya
Huntleya burtii
Huntleya burtii
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Maxillarieae
Subtribe: Zygopetalinae
Genus: Huntleya
Bateman ex Lindl.., 1837

Type Species
Huntleya meleagris
Lindl.., 1837
Species
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Huntleya is a small orchid genus that includes fourteen species

These are epiphytic, pseudobulbless and often larger plants with subplicates leaves nearing forty centimeters long, erect and single-flowered. They occur in wet cloud forests at medium altitudes of Guatemala, Costa Rica, South America down to Bolivia. The type species Huntleya meleagris equally occurs in Trinidad.

Species

Reference

  • Pupulin, Franco. Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids vol 1 Acianthera - Kegeliella. Sistema Editorial y University of Costa Rica.

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