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'''''Huntleya''''' is a small [[orchid]] genus that includes fourteen species
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These are  [[epiphyte|epiphytic]], [[pseudobulb]]less 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]].
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Huntleya (personal name). Orchidaceae. Epiphytal orchids without pseudobulbs, like Zygopetalum.
 
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.
 
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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==Cultivation==
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| color = lightgreen
 
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| name = ''Huntleya''
 
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
 
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| genus = '''''Huntleya'''''
 
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| genus_authority = Bateman ex [[John Lindley|Lindl..]], 1837
 
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'''''Huntleya''''' is a small [[orchid]] genus that includes fourteen species
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These are  [[epiphyte|epiphytic]], [[pseudobulb]]less 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 ==
 
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* ''[[Huntleya wallisii]]'' (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
 
* ''[[Huntleya wallisii]]'' (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
  
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*Pupulin, Franco. Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids vol 1 Acianthera - Kegeliella. Sistema Editorial y University of Costa Rica.
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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Huntleya burtii


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
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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.


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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