Common Name ²

Burt's Huntleya

Location ³

Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and possibly Bolivia.

Description ³

Flower Size 4 4/5" (12 cm)
No pseudobulbs and a fan-shape growth habit with oblong, conduplicate basally, articulate, acute, leaves that have imbricate, alternate, distichous sheathing bases from which arises, at any time of the year, a short inflorescence, arising from the lower leaf axils that holds the flat, occasionally fragrant flower at mid leaf. Very similar to Huntleya meleagris but differs by having dark stains at the base of the petals. The major difference between H burtii and H meleagris is location and the maroon spots on either side of the column. H burtii is found in central America through the northwestern Colombian coast and has the maroon spots towards the center of the flower. H. meleagris on the other hand occurs from Venezuela through Brazil and Bolivia and has no central maroon spots on either side of the column.

Habitat Type ³

Grows mid-way up on tree trunks in tropical wet and montane cloud forests (Pupulin 2004, Morales 2005). It is a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.
Can be found from about 350 to 2,500 m asl, over a minimum of six ecoregions.

References ³

http://www.orchidspecies.com/huntlburtii.htm

Morales, J.F. 2005. Orchids of Costa Rica. Inbio, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica.

Pupulin, F. 2004. Population survey of Kefersteinia retanae (Orchidaceae): just an academic exercise? Orchid Conservation News, The Newsletter of the Orchid Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission 4: 5-10.

Romand-Monnier, F. & Chadburn, H. 2013. Huntleya burtii. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. . Downloaded on 25 February 2014.

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