Dracula chestertonii [Rchb.f.]Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Chestertonae
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Common Name Chesterson's Dracula [English Orchid Collector in Colombia 1800's]
Flower Size to about 3" [7 cm]
Found in Antioquia, Choco' and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters as a cool to cold growing, small sized orchid from with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, dark green, lightly plicate, thinly coriaceous, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and autumn on a slender, horizontal to descending, multi-bracted, purple, 8" [20 cm] longl, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul carrying a fragrant [mushrooms] flower held below the leaves.
Synonyms *Masdevallia chestertoni Rchb.f 1883; Masdevallia macrochila Regel 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Masdevallia chestertoni; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Masdevallia chestertonii drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Masdevallia chestertoni; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Masdevallia chestertonii; Orquideologia Vol 13 Nom1 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 7 1979 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; The Illustratred Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon, 1992 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 25 #1 2007 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #3 2016; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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