Dracula nigritella Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae

Photo by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

LATE

Common Name The Little Black Dracula

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador as a small sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramcauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly linear-elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below in to the conduplicate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a horizontal to descending, 2.8" [7 cm] long, congested, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a tubular floral bract

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010;

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