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'''''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]].
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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==
===Propagation===
===Pests and diseases===
== Species ==
== Species ==
* ''[[Huntleya wallisii]]'' (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
* ''[[Huntleya wallisii]]'' (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
== Reference ==
==Gallery==
*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
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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