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Dracula velutina (Rchb. f.) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Gary Meyer and Chad Sarles Dracula Species Database.

Common Name The Velvety Dracula

Flower Size 1.2" to 2.4" [3 x 6 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in cloud forests as a small to just medium sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical-linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms on multiple, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, few [2] flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul occuring in the winter, spring and fall

Synonyms Dracula lactea (Kraenzl.) Luer 1978; Dracula microglochin (Rchb. f.) Luer 1978; Dracula trinema (Rchb. f.) Luer 1978; Masdevallia lactea Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia microglochin Rchb. f. 1886; Masdevallia trinema Rchb. f. 1886; *Masdevallia velutina Rchb. f. 1875

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 6 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1993 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide;

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Common Name The Velvety Dracula

Found in Colombia as a cold to cool growing epiphyte that blooms on multiple, 3 to 4" [7,5 to 10 cm] long, few [2] flowered inflorescence occuirng in the spring and summer. This is a rare yellow form of the species.

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