Dracula trinympharum Luer 1993

SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Grandiflorae-Parvilabiate Photo courtesy of © Chad Sarles

Common Name The Three Nymph Dracula [refers to the three owners of J&L Orchids who helped in the discovery of this species]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in northwestern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular shaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, plicate, carinate, narrowly linear-obovate, acute, gradually anrrowing below intothe conduplicate, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms that blooms in the fall on a erect, sparsely bracted, 8 to 11.6" [20 to 29 cm] long, loose, successively few flowered, racemose inflroescence arising from low on the ramicaul and has a tubular, oblique floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 7 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1994 watercolor/drawing fide; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;

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