Dracula sijmii Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Sijm's Dracula [Dutch Original Collector of Species current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a small sized, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, carinate, narrowly obovate, acute, gradually narrowing below in to the condplicate base leaf that blooms on an ascending to horizontal, arising from low on the ramicaul, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, successively, distantly few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bract.
Similar to D houteana but differs in the distantly flowered inflorescence with sepals that are deep purple-black externally, gray-purple and sparsely spiculate within, deeply connate into a conical, sepaline cup or tube and a round, proportionally wider with incomplete lamellae epichile and a hypochile with both margins cleft and have a pair of papillae.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * "> Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 drawing ok; 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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