Dracula erythrocodon (Luer & Dalström) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007 SUBGENUS Sodiroa [Luer] Luer 1989
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website
TYPE Drawing of D sodiroi subsp erythrocodon TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Red Bell Dracula [refers to the campanulate red flower]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador in forests on steep ridges at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveolped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, sparsely bracted, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, single [occasionally followed by a second] flowered inflorescence with tubular oblique, floral bracts and carrying the externally red, campanulate flower.
Similar to D sodiroi but differs in the epiphytic habit, the single flowered inflorescence, the reddish color of the outside of the flower and the flat purple callus on the inner surface of the claw of the petals below the middle.
Synonyms *Dracula sodiroi subsp. erythrocodon Luer & Dalström 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 as D sodiroi subsp erythrocodon drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 as D soderoi ssp erythrocodonphoto fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009; 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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