Huntleya is a small orchid genus that includes fourteen species

These are epiphytic

Epiphyte

An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object , derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone and in the...

, pseudobulb

Pseudobulb

The pseudobulb is a storage organ derived from the part of a stem between two leaf nodes.It applies to the orchid family , specifically certain groups of epiphytic orchids, and may be single or composed of several internodes with evergreen or deciduous leaves along its length.In some species, it is...

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

Guatemala

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, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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, South America down to Bolivia

Bolivia

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. The type species Huntleya meleagris equally occurs in Trinidad

Trinidad

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Species

• Huntleya apiculata (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
• Huntleya brevis Schltr.
• Huntleya burtii
  Huntleya burtii
  Huntleya burtii is a species of orchid that occurs in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica....
  
  (Endres & Rchb.f.) Rolfe
• Huntleya caroli P.Ortiz
• Huntleya citrina
  Huntleya citrina
  Huntleya citrina is a species of orchid that occurs in western Colombia and Ecuador....
  
  Rolfe
• Huntleya fasciata
  Huntleya fasciata
  Huntleya fasciata is a species of orchid that occurs from Colombia and northwestern Ecuador to Honduras and Belize....
  
  Fowlie
• Huntleya grandiflora Lam.
• Huntleya gustavii
  Huntleya gustavii
  Huntleya gustavii is a species of orchid that occurs from Colombia and Ecuador and of late it is decreasing in population....
  
  (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
• Huntleya lucida
  Huntleya lucida
  Huntleya lucida is a species of orchid that occurs in northern Brazil , Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras and Venezuela....
  
  (Rolfe) Rolfe
• Huntleya meleagris
  Huntleya meleagris
  Huntleya meleagris is a species of orchid that occurs along the coast of Brazil and Venezuela....
  
  Lindl.
• Huntleya sessiliflora Bateman ex Lindl.
• Huntleya vargasii Dodson & D.E.Benn.
• Huntleya waldvogelii Jenny
• Huntleya wallisii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe