title: Huntleya
text: # Huntleya
  
  Huntleya is a small orchid genus native to South America, Central America and Trinidad.
  
  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:
  
  * 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
  