Dracula presbys Luer & R.Escobar 1993 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Old Man Dracula [refers to the white hairs on the face of the flower]
Flower Size 2" x 5" [5 x 12.5 cm]
Found in northwestern Antioquia department of Colombia as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, elliptical-obovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a simultaneous, suberect, arising from low on the ramicaul, 3.2 to 3.6" [8 to 9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the long, narrow leaves and the simultaneous flowering of several to many single flowered, more or less erect, relatively short peduncles that usually appear only at long intervals. The shallowly cupped flowers are larger that those of the usual flowers of either Dracula houtteana or Dracula psittacina . The fowers re white and covered within by a dense blanket iod long, white, hair-like, forked appendages." Luer 1993
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 7 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1994 watercolor/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide;
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