Dracula rezekiana Luer & R. Hawley 1979 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Milan Vagner
Photo by © David Morria
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Rezek's Dracula [Ecuadorian orchid enthusiast Late 1900's]
Flower Size 1.5" x 3.2" [3.75 x 8 cm]
Found in Napo and Zamora-Chinchpe provinces of Ecuador and Peru in forests at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, suberect to horizontal, arising from low on the ramicaul sparsely bracted, 4.2 to 6" [11 to 15 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by the small habit and the small, white, bell-shaped flower densely pubescent within. The most distinctive feature is the small obovate lip obscurely if at all, divided into an epichile and a hypochole. The shallwly concave epichile is coursed by several, branching veins and the hypochile is broadly cleft." Luer 1993
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 4 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1991 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #11 2012 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide
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