Dracula alcithoe Luer & R. Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula
Photo by © Franco Pupulin and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name Alcithoe's Dracula [A woman in greek mythology that was turned into a bat]
Flower Size 10" tall x 2" wide [25 x 5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1900 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate to linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a stout, horizontal to descending, lax, 6 1/4" to 8" [16 to 20 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with tubular floral bracts .
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 3 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1990 watercolor/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide to the second photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 5 2004 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide to the second photo; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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