Dracula marsupialis Luer & Hirtz

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Orchid Species: Dracula marsupialis

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dracula marsupialis is an orchid species identified by Luer & Hirtz in 1986.

Genus

Dracula (Drac.)

Grex

marsupialis
(name currently accepted by Kew)

Parents

Species

Author

Luer & Hirtz

Year

1986

ORIGIN: Found in northwestern Ecuador in wet cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2200 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular shjeaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, subplicate, elliptical, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, horizontal to descending with the flower facing downwards, 12 to 16.8 [30 to 42 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and carrying a few distant bracts and with a tubular floral bract. .

FLOWER SIZE: 2.8 inches [7 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

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Found in Pichincha and Imbabura provinces of Ecuador in wet cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular shjeaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, subplicate, elliptical, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, horizontal to descending with the flower facing downwards, arising from low on the ramicaul, provided with a few distant bracts, 12 to 16.8" [30 to 42 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter to slightly longer than the pedicel floral bract.

"The broad leaves are subplicate and petiolate and the slender peduncles are descending. The flowers are relatively small with widely spread, microscopically verrucose to pubescent, yellow sepals that are speckled with brown at the apices and bases. The apical margin of the extraordinary epichile of the lip is inflated and reflexed so that a deep pouch is created. Lamellate veins radiate within the pouch with toothed margins. It is similar to Dracula gastrophora which is distinguished by larger, dark brown, cupped flowers." Luer 1993

IOSPE PHOTOS (orchidspecies.com)

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