Huntleya

Taxobox
name = "Huntleya"

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image_caption = "Huntleya burtii"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Orchidaceae
subfamilia = Epidendroideae
tribus = Maxillarieae
subtribus = Zygopetalinae
genus = "Huntleya"
genus_authority = Bateman ex Lindl.., 1837
type_species = "Huntleya meleagris"
type_species_authority = Lindl.., 1837
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"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

References

*Pupulin, Franco. Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids vol 1 Acianthera - Kegeliella. Sistema Editorial y University of Costa Rica.