Dracula brangeri Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae Photo by Gary Meyer
Flower and Plant Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name Branger's Dracula [Netherland's Orchid Collector 1900's]
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
A Colombian species of the central cordillera and has a hinged movable lip otherwise very similar to D chimaera. It is 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, narrowly obovate, acute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into the slender subpetiolate base and blooms in the fall on a loose, successively few flowered, 5" [10 cm] long, racemose, horizontal to pendant inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having a few oblique floral bracts and holding the single flower below the plant
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1992 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007
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