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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Huntleya''
| image = Huntleya burtii.jpg
| image_caption = ''Huntleya burtii''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
| tribus = [[Maxillarieae]]
| subtribus = Zygopetalinae
| genus = '''''Huntleya'''''
| genus_authority = Bateman ex [[John Lindley|Lindl..]], 1837
| type_species = ''Huntleya meleagris''
| type_species_authority = [[John Lindley|Lindl..]], 1837
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Huntleya''''' is a small [[orchid]] genus that includes fourteen species

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 ==
* ''[[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.

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