Dracula hirtzii Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Manfred Schmucker plants grown by Akerne Orchids in Belgium
Another Color Form Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
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Common Name Hirtz's Dracula [German Orchid Collector in Ecuador current]
Flower Size 4 x 10" [10 x 25 cm]
Found in Narino Colombia and Ecuador as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in cloud forests at elevations of 1300 to 2100 meters with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, subplicate, elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicae, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring .
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 4 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1991 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 2 2007 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo; 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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