Dracula vampira [Luer]Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Plant and Flower in situ Ecuador
Photo by © Mike Huben
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Vampire-Like Dracula
Flower Size 3 1/5" [8 cm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, epiphyte with clustered, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 close, truncate, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-obovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that bloosm at most any time of the year has a basal, pendant to horizontal, 15 to 19" [37 to 57 cm] long, laxly successively single, several flowered inflorescence with tubular, oblique, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and up to 6, showy, pendant flowers.
"The color of the sepals is variable. Sometimes the purplish black veins are so thin that the flower appears green. At the other extreme the pigmentation may be so intense that the hairless sepals appear nearly black except for the coronet-like base above the petals and column. A smaller flowered similar species is,A href="dracbangina.htm">Dracula ubangina ." Luer 1993
Synonyms *Masdevallia vampira Luer 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 9 1979 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 # 9 1984 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 916 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 10 1986 photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 2 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1989 watercolor/drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992; The Illustratred Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon, 1992 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 2 1994 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 12 1995 photo photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 2 1996 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 10 1998 photo fide; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 2 2000; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 9 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 10 2002 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 5 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 10 2004 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 2 2005; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Epidendroedeae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 10 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2009 photo; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 10 2009 photo fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #10 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #1 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #1 2016; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide;
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