Huntleya

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Huntleya burtii


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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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