Dracula xenos Luer & R. Escobar 1989 SUBGENUS Xenosia

Flower Closeup Photos by Lourens Grobler ©

Common Name or Meaning The Strange Dracula

Flower Size 4 x 6" [10 x 15 cm]

Found in western Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a singler, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a slender, erect, 3.6" to 4.6" [9 to 11.5 cm] long, lax, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a few distant bracts and floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1992 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo

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