Dracula papillosa Luer & Dodson 1993 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photo by © Gary Meyer and the Dracula Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993
Common Name The Pappilate Dracula [refers to the very verrucose elongate pepals]
Flower Size 1" x 6" [2.5 x 15 cm]
Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly obovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a descending, arising from low on the ramicaul, 3" [7.5 cm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered, racemose inflorescence with a oblique, tubular, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"The small, whitish, widely spread, long-tailed flowers are sparsely covered within by short papillae. The flwoers are superficially similar to Dracula houtteana and Dracula psittacina complex. The most distinct features are the elongated petals with papillose apices that protrude far beyond the column. The narrow, ovate epichile of the lip is slightly concave with the margins flat between marginal fragments of lamellae radiating from three central carinae." Luer 1993
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 7 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1994 watercolor/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo ; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide
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