Dracula sibundoyensis Luer & R.Escobar 1979 SUBGENUS Dracula SECTION Dracula SUBSECTION Dracula SERIES Dracula
Photo by © Colomborquideas
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Orquideas del Valle, Colombia and the Dracula Website
Common Name The Sibundoy Dracula [An area in Putumayo Colombia]
Flower Size 2" x 8" [5 x 20 cm]
Found in Putumayo department southwestern Colombia and in northwestern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes in cloud forests at elevations of 2200 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls with 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, very narrowly obovate to linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a stout, purplish, horizontal to descending, 3.2" to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, lax, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a tubular floral bract
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia vol 13 No 2 1979 photo/drawing/herbariumsheet fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Thesaurus Dracularum Vol 5 Luer, Escobar and Dalstroem 1992 watercolor/drawing not = D navarroorum; Icones Pleurothallidinarum X Systematics of Dracula Luer 1993 Drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 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; Draculas Del Ecuador Pupulin, Merino and Medina 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; 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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