Dracula minax Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Gary Meyer
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Threatening Dracula [refers to the face in the flower]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphtye with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly obovate, subacute , gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a stout, horizontal to descending, arising from low on the ramicaul, sparsely bracted, 6.4 to 10" [16 to 25 cm] long, lax, several to many flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel florral bract .
" The small widely spread flower is characterized by the diffuse, purple-brown markings and a shallowly concave, round epichile of the lip. The non-involute margins are denticulate with the terminations of the radsinting veins within." Luer 1993
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing/photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 2 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1989 watercolor/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia COS 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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