Dracula roezlii (Rchb.f.) C.A.Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name Roezl's Dracula [Bohemian Orchid Collector in South America 1800's]

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 to 2350 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, elliptical, subplicate, acute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, indistinct, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a stout, horizontal to descending, to 22" [to 55 cm] long, loose, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bract. .

Synonyms Masdevallia chimaera subvar. rubra (Rchb. f.) Warner & Williams 1887; Masdevallia chimaera var. roezlii H.J.Veitch in H.J.Veitch 1889; Masdevallia chimaera var. roezlii (Rchb.f.) Veitch ?; Masdevallia chimaera var. winniana (Rchb. f.) H.J. Veitch 1889; *Masdevallia roezlii Rchb.f. 1874; Masdevallia roezlii var. rubra hort. ex Williams 1885; Masdevallia winniana Rchb. f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1874 as Masdevallia roezlii drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1992 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide;

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