Dracula inexperata

 Dracula inexperata Pupulin, Orchids (West Palm Beach) 70(6): 564 (2001) (2001).

Dracula inexperata Pupulin, Photo by Tavillo Rojas Aguilar

its native range is Costa Rica.

Latinh Name: 

Dracula inexperata Pupulin

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No

English Name:

The Unexpected Dracula (refers to the discovery of this showy species in a very visited spot).

Description: 

with short, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, carinate, acute, lightly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct, conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a pendant, successively single, to 14 cm long, few flowered, terete inflorescence arising from the base of the ramicaul with 2 to 3 distant, tubular bracts and an ovate, cucullate, acute floral bract.

Distribution:

Costa Rica.

Ecological:

at elevations around 1100 to 1200 m as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

9.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in warm to hot conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Type:

Collector Team:

F. Pupulin; R. Chacón; Curso de Orquideología 2584

Locality:

Cartago: Orosi, Parque Nacional Tapantí, sendero Oropendula, along the Río Grande de Orosi, 1160m

Collection Date:

19 Nov 2000

Type Herbaria:

holotype USJ

Distribution Of Types:

Costa Rica.