Dracula venosa (Rolfe) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Costatae
Photo by © Milan Vágner.
Photo by © Gary Meyer and the Dracula website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Veined Dracula
Flower Size .8" x 3.2" [2 x 8 cm]
Found in Colombia and northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tuublar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a slender, arising from low on the ramicaul, descending, many bracted, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by a cluster of narrow leaves and long, slender, descending, single flowered peduncles. Often numerous flowers are produced simultaneously. The ovaries are crested. The sepals are connate into a rose-colored cup with tails about the same length. The minute red lip is subpandurate with the convex epichile barely wider than the hypochile." Luer 1993
Synonyms *Masdevallia venosa Rolfe 1901
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew Rolfe 1901 as Masdevallia venosa; * Selbyana 2: 198 Luer 1978; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1992 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; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; 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; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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