Dracula dodsonii (Luer) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dodsonia Luer 1978 Photo courtesy of Gary Meyer

Common Name Dodson's Dracula [American Orchid Taxomonist Ecuador current]]

Flower Size 1 1/2" x 5" [3.75 x 12.5 cm]

Found in Valle de Cauca and Narino Colombia as well as Pichincha Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes in cloud forests at elevetions or 1600 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial on steep embankments or as an epiphtye with stout, erect ramicaule envelopped basally by 2 t o3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrtin a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, elliptical obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, slender, successively few flowered, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that is sparsely bracted, arising from low on the ramicaul and has loose, tubular floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 2 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1989 watercolor/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson, Escobar 1993 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 drawing fide

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