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Dracula velutina (Rchb. f.) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Parviflorae

Photo by © Eric Hunt

Photo by © Gary Meyer and Chad Sarles and the Dracula Species Database

Common Name The Velvety Dracula

Flower Size 1.2" to 2.4" [3 x 6 cm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests as a small to just medium sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly elliptical-linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on multiple, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, successively single, few [2] flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.

Synonyms Dracula lactea (Kraenzl.) Luer 1978; Dracula microglochin (Rchb. f.) Luer 1978; Dracula trinema (Rchb. f.) Luer 1978; Masdevallia lactea Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia microglochin Rchb. f. 1886; Masdevallia trinema Rchb. f. 1886; *Masdevallia velutina Rchb. f. 1875

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; The Illustratred Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon, 1992; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 6 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1993 watercolor/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #11 2012 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia COS 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;

Dracula velutina (Rchb. f.) Luer var. xanthina

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Common Name The Velvety Dracula

Found in Colombia as a cold to cool growing epiphyte that blooms on multiple, 3 to 4" [7,5 to 10 cm] long, few [2] flowered inflorescence occuirng in the spring and summer. This is a rare yellow form of the species.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 as D velutina yellow form photo fide; Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide

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