Dracula verticulosa Luer & R. Escobar 1989 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Grandiflorae-Parvilabiate
Photo by © Colomborquideas
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Common Name Refers to forming Small Whorls
Flower Size 3 x 7" [7.5 x 17.5 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, 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, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer, winter and spring on a stout, erect, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, loose, successively single, few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 4 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1991 watercolor/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 61 #4 1997 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 No 4 2008 as D verticulosa f alba 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;
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