Dracula x kareniae Luer & Dalström 1997 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Grandiflorae-Parvilabiate Luer 1993
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Karen's Dracula [Mrs Ferrell-Ingram American Co-collector of species current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador on forest ridges at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly obovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a suberect, loose, 7 1/4" [18 cm] long, simultaneoulsy few flowered inflorescence arising form low on the ramicaul and has tubular floral bracts.
Dracula x kareniae is a natural hybrid between D erythrocodon and D fuliginosa and is distinguished by the narrow, acute leaves and relatively large, campanulate flower. The long tailed sepals are deeply connate, dark purple externally and pubescent and cream within with multiple small spots. The papillae between the valves of the petals are numerous. The epichile of the lip is concave with nine to ten lamellae radiating to non-involute margins." Luer 1997
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 Drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 5 2004 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide; 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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