Dracula octavioi Luer & R.Escobar 1979 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photo by © Heinz Gutzke and his Flickr Orchid Photo Site
Photo by © Gary Meyer
Photo by © Carl Luer and Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002
Common Name Octavio's Dracula [refers to Brother Ospina - Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast current and discoverer of species]
Flower Size 2" x 12" [5 x 30 cm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2300 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate to linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a slender, ascending to descending, arising from low on the ramicaul and is sparsely bracted, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, successiverly few flowered inflorescence with a tubular,shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by a swnsely caespitose habit with long, narrow leaves and descending peduncles. The medium sized, bell-shaped flowers are pale yellowish rose, diffused with red-brown. The inner surface is covered by a dense, white pubescence. The apices of the obtuse sepals are produced into 2 long, slender tails. The small epichile of the lip is concave with a few tall, radiating lines." Luer 1993
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 13 No 2 1979 photo/drawing/herbarium sheet fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 3 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1990 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; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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