Dracula janetiae (Luer) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Costatae
Photo by © Lisa Thoerle
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Janet's Dracula [refers to Mrs Kuhn, Discoverer of species]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador? and Huanuco Peru at elevations around 1700 meters as a miniature to just small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a purple, horizontal to descending, arising from low on the ramicaul successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to both Dracula nycterina and Dracula vespertilio but readily distinguished by the flat, round, minutely verrucose epipchile of the lip. D nycterina is lamellate and D vespertillio is completely smooth." Luer 1993
Synonyms *Masdevallia janetiae Luer 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Selbyana 2: 198 Luer 1978; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo hmm but as d aff janetiae; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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