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Read about Huntleya in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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 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
- Huntleya apiculata (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
- Huntleya brevis Schltr.
- Huntleya burtii (Endres & Rchb.f.) Rolfe
- Huntleya caroli P.Ortiz
- Huntleya citrina Rolfe
- Huntleya fasciata Fowlie
- Huntleya grandiflora Lam.
- Huntleya gustavii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
- Huntleya lucida (Rolfe) Rolfe
- Huntleya meleagris Lindl.
- Huntleya sessiliflora Bateman ex Lindl.
- Huntleya vargasii Dodson & D.E.Benn.
- Huntleya waldvogelii Jenny
- Huntleya wallisii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
Reference
- Pupulin, Franco. Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids vol 1 Acianthera - Kegeliella. Sistema Editorial y University of Costa Rica.
