Dracula × anicula Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Grandiflorae-Parvilabiate
Photo by © Orquideologia and their Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © The Dracula Species Europe Website
Type Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The Little Old Woman Dracula [refers to the flowers appearance as a withered, toothless female face]
Flower Size 5" tall x 3" wide [12.5 x 7.5 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests 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, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a stout, green, subverrucose, more or less horizontal, lax, 3.6" to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with sparse bracts and a tubular floral bracts .
This species is a natural hybrid between D. cutis-bufonis and D. wallisii.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing/photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Ecobar and Dalstroem 1992 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; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide
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