Dracula veleziana Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2005 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula Photo courtesy of © Francisco Villegas and the Dracula Website

Common Name Velez's Dracula [Colombian Orchid Nusrseryman's mother]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations of 1900 to 2100 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, elliptical-oblanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a horizontal to descending, 10" [25 cm] long, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo

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