Dracula radiosa (Rchb.f.) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of © Gary Meyer and the Dracula Website

Common Name The Radiating Dracula [refers to the lip]

Flower Size 2" x 6" [5 x 15 cm]

Found from Antioquia to Cauca Colombia and northwest Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1600 to 2100 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical,erect, thinly coriaceosu, carinate, elliptical, subplicate, acute, gradually narrwoing below into the conduplicate, indisitint, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a stout, subverrucose, horizontal to descending, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, subdense, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bract

Synonyms Dracula medellinensis (Kraenzl.) Luer 1978; Masdevallia medellinensis Kraenzl. 1921; *Masdevallia radiosa Rchb.f. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Masdevallia radiosa; Die Orchideen #7 25-28 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Masdevallia radiosa photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 3 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1990 watercolor/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing 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;

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