Dracula chestertonii [Rchb.f.]Luer 1978 Subgenus Dracula Section Chestertonae Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Another Flower Photo by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Chesterson's Dracula [English Orchid Collector in Colombia 1800's]
Flower Size to about 3" [7 cm]
A cool to cold growing, small sized orchid from Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, dark green, lightly plicate, thinly coriaceous, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and autumn on a slender, horizontal to descending, multi-bracted, purple, 8" [20 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a few single, fragrant [mushrooms] flowers borne in succession and held below the plant.
Synonyms *Masdevallia chestertoni Rchb.f 1883; Masdevallia macrochila Regel 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993
