Dracula schudelii Luer & Hirtz 1999 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Costatae Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name Schudel's Dracula [American Cultivator of species Current]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Ecuador and is a natural hybrid with one parent being D Bella and D wallisii and is characterized by having erect, stout ramicauls enveloped completely by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, carinate, narrlwy elliptical, acute, gradually narroweing below into the indistinct, conduplicate petiollate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a lateral to pendant, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothalidinarum Vol XVIII Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo

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