Dracula gorgonella Luer & R. Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Ruth Guillard and Her Orchid Website

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Common Name The Little Gorgon Dracula

Flower Size 2.2 " [5.5 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia on the eastern slopes of the western cordillera in cloud forests at altitudes of 1700 to 2000 meters and is a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a sssingle, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, subplicate, elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a sparsely bracted, horizontal to descending, [8 to 15 cm] long, loose, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying tubular floral bracts..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 7 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1994 watercolor/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide;

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