Dracula pubescens Luer & Dalström in C.A.Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Hairy Dracula
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphtye with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a horizontal to descending, loose, successively single, several flowered, 4 to 7.2" [10 to 18 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with tubular, oblique floral bracts.
"Dracula pubescens is most closely allied D. morleyi. The two taxa are of similar habit and color of the floral parts. The flower of the former, however, is larger with thrice longer, slender tails, and a long, dense pubescence within. The flowers are similar to some forms of the Colombian D. wallisii. Other than D. morleyi, the only species with densely long-pubescent sepals found in Ecuador is D. alcithoe and D. woolwardiae. From them, D. pubescens is distinguished by the acute, long-petiolate leaves, and deeply concave epichile without involute margins." Luer & Dalstrom 1994
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 7 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1994 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Systematics of Lepanthes Subgenus Brachycladium and Pleurothallis Subgenus Aenigma, Subgenus Elongata and Subgenus Kranzlinella Luer 1994 Drawing fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009; 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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