Dracula mopsus [F.Lehm & Kraenzel] Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Costatae
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Pug-Like Dracula
Flower Size 1/2” [1.25 cm]
Found in El Oro, Manabi and Cotopaxi provinces of Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a very short ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 acuminate, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through summer in situ on a pendant, arising from the base of the ramicaul, to 6” [15 cm] long, sarsely bracteate, successively 1, 2 flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long as to longer than teh epdicel floral bract.
"D mopsus produces from relatively short, descending peduncles, small, red-brown, spotted, cupped flowers with costate ovaries and short tails." Luer 1993
Synonyms *Masdevallia mopsus F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia triceratops Luer 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.17: 419. Lehm. & Kranzl. 1921 as Masdevallia mopsus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 054 Dodson 1980 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 Drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; 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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