Dracula sodiroi (Schltr.) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Sodiroa
Another Flower Photos by Jay Pfahl © plant grown by Arturo Carrillo.
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders plant grown by Jimm Rassmann.
Another Flower Angle Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Inflorescence and Plant Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt plant grown by SF Conservatory of Flowers.
Common Name Sodiro's Dracula [Ecuadorian Priest early 1900's] - The Red Bell Dracula [A reference to the campanulate flower]
Flower Size 1 5/8" [4 cm]
This is a Ecuadorian terrestrial or epiphytic species found at elevations of 1500 to 2400 meters with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate, acute leaf gradually narrowed below to an indistinct petiole and has an erect, slender, 8" [20 cm] long, campanulate raceme arising from low on the ramicaul with a succesive few flowered raceme and a tubular, oblique floral bract.
Synonyms *Masdevallia sodiroi Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 Drawing/photo fideOrchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide
Dracula sodiroi subsp. erythrocodon Luer & Dalström 1997
Flower Size 1 5/8" [4 cm]
This is a warm to cool growing epiphyte found in Ecuador at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters where it blooms on a erect, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the winter. Differs from the species by having red flowers instead of orange and a single [occasionally followed by one more] flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaf and florally the purple callus that is on the inner surface of the claw of the petals below the middle.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;
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