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Huntleya wailesiae is an orchid species identified by B.S.Williams in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Huntleya wallisii.
ORIGIN: Found from Colombia to Ecuador in tropical and montane wet forests at elevations around 50 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with very small or lacking pseudobulbs and a very short stem carrying several, in a well defined fan-shape, broadly lanceolate leaves that gradually fold into a conduplicate base attached to the clasping leaf sheaths that blooms at any time of the year on an axillary, single flowered, 4 [10 cm] long inflorescence with very waxy, large fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: To 5 inches [to 12.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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