Dracula pusilla (Rolfe) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae Photo by © Moises Behar and Project Orchidstudium Website
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of © Karel Kratochvil and the Dracula Website
Common Name The Small Flowered Dracula
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia? in cloud forests growing in thick mossy and leafy debris on the trunks of tall trees in dim forests, as well as on low, thin branches of short trees in wet, elfin forests at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect,. thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, descending, 2 to 7" [5 to 17.5 cm] long, loose, successively few flwoered racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Masdevallia johannis Schltr. 1912; *Masdevallia pusilla Rolfe 1893; Dracula vagabunda Luer & R.Escobar 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iccones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 663 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing ok; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 7 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1994 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 549 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide;
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