Huntleya
Appearance
Huntleya | |
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Huntleya burtii | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
Tribe: | Cymbidieae |
Subtribe: | Zygopetalinae |
Genus: | Huntleya Bateman ex Lindl.., 1837 |
Type species | |
Huntleya meleagris Lindl.., 1837
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Huntleya is a small orchid genus native to South America, Central America and Trinidad.[1]
These are epiphytic, pseudobulbless and often larger plants with subplicate leaves nearing forty centimeters long, erect and single-flowered. They occur in wet cloud forests at medium altitudes.
Species
Species currently accepted as of June 2014:[1]
- Huntleya apiculata (Rchb.f.) Rolfe - Colombia
- Huntleya brevis Schltr. - Colombia
- Huntleya burtii (Endres & Rchb.f.) Rolfe - from Colombia north to Guatemala
- Huntleya caroli P.Ortiz - Colombia
- Huntleya citrina Rolfe - Colombia, Ecuador
- Huntleya fasciata Fowlie - Ecuador, Panama, Belize
- Huntleya grandiflora Lam. - Colombia
- Huntleya gustavii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe - Colombia, Ecuador
- Huntleya lucida (Rolfe) Rolfe - Venezuela (including the Venezuelan Islands of the Caribbean), Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil
- Huntleya meleagris Lindl. - Trinidad and northern South America to Brazil
- Huntleya sessiliflora Bateman ex Lindl. - Guyana
- Huntleya vargasii Dodson & D.E.Benn. - Peru
- Huntleya waldvogelii Jenny - Colombia
- Huntleya wallisii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe - Ecuador
References
- Pupulin, Franco. Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids vol 1 Acianthera - Kegeliella. Sistema Editorial y University of Costa Rica.
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