Huntleya

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

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. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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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

• 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.