Dracula lemurella Luer & R. Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae Photo courtesy of Richard Korber

Common Name The Lemur-Like Dracula

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations of 1650 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly obovateto linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, more or less horizontal, 2" to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm]successively 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising fro low on the ramicaul and carrying tublar floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo;